Francoise Demulder, 61, a French photojournalist who was the first woman to win the World Press Photo of the Year award, died last Wednesday of a heart attack at a hospital near Paris. She had been in declining health for several years, battling cancer.
Demulder, who covered many of the major conflicts of the late 20th century, won praise for a striking black-and-white photograph of a Palestinian woman raising her hands at a masked militiaman in Beirut's war-ravaged La Quarantaine district.
She won the 1976 World Press Photo award for the image, becoming the first woman to win the honor.
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