Alan diaz biography
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MIAMI (CBSMiami/AP) — The man behind one of the most memorable South Florida photos of the 1990's has passed away.
Retired Associated Press photojournalist Alan Diaz, whose photo of a terrified 6-year-old Cuban boy named Elian Gonzalez earned him the Pulitzer Prize, died at age 71.
Diaz's daughter, Aillette Rodriguez-Diaz, confirmed that he died Tuesday.
The cause of death wasn't immediately known.
"He was the king of the family," Rodriguez-Diaz said. "He cared about all of his friends and colleagues. His life was photography and my mother."
Diaz's wife, Martha, died nearly two years ago.
Diaz's iconic image shows an armed U.S.
immigration agent confronting the boy in the Little Havana home where he lived with relatives after being found floating off the Florida coast.
"Alan Diaz captured, in his iconic photographs, some of the most important moments of our generation - the bitter, violent struggle over the fate of a small