Bernie Boston, 74; photographer chronicled a tumultuous era

Bernie Boston, the photojournalist who captured the iconic image of a young Vietnam War protester placing a flower in the barrel of a rifle held by a National Guardsman, died Tuesday at his home in Basye, Va. He was 74.Boston, a former photographer for the Washington Star, the Dayton Daily News and the Los Angeles Times, died from complications of amyloidosis, a rare disease in which abnormal proteins build up in organs and tissues, said his wife, Peggy Boston.

The photo known as "Flower Power" became Boston's signature image and earned him acclaim in the world of photojournalism. Taken during an antiwar march on the Pentagon on Oct. 22, 1967, the photo was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize." 'Flower Power' is one of those quintessential images," said Therese Mulligan of the Rochester Institute of Technology, which houses Boston's archives and in 2006 presented an exhibition of his works. "It sums up that period, how a lot of people feel about the '60s."

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