Photo by Steven St. John(AP Photo/Estate of Bernie Boston)

(AP Photo/Estate of Bernie Boston)

This iconic photo of a Vietnam War protester putting flowers in the gun barrels of National Guard troops was taken by Bernie Boston in Washington, D.C. on Oct. 22, 1967. Boston died Tuesday at the age of 74. The photo, "Flower Power," was a runner-up for the Pulitzer Prize.

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BASYE, Va. — Bernie Boston, a newspaper photographer best known for his iconic 1960s picture of a Vietnam War protester placing flowers in the gun barrels of National Guard troops at a rally, has died. He was 74.

Boston died Tuesday of a rare blood disease at his home in Basye, where he retired in 1994 after working for the Los Angeles Times, the Washington Star and the Dayton Daily News. His death was announced by the White House News Photographers Association, for which he served four terms as president.

Boston's photograph, "Flower Power," was a runner-up for the Pulitzer Prize. He took the picture at a war protest in Washington on Oct. 22, 1967.

He was also a Pulitzer Prize finalist for a 1987 photograph of Coretta Scott King unveiling a bust of her late husband, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., in the U.S. Capitol.

Born in Washington, Boston was graduated from the Rochester Institute of Technology and served in the Army before starting his news photography career in Dayton. He moved back to Washington to work at the Star and was director of photography when the newspaper folded in 1981. He then was hired by the Los Angeles Times to establish a photo operation in the nation's capital.

He covered every president from Harry Truman to Bill Clinton.

After retiring, Boston and his wife, Peggy, co-owned the Bryce Mountain Courier, a monthly newspaper.