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Carl Mydans

Born

in Medford, Massachusetts, The United States

May 20, 1907

Died

August 16, 2004

Website

http://digitaljournalist.org/issue0409/halstead...

Genre

Memoir, Journalism, Photography

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Carl Mydans was an American photographer who worked for the Farm Security Administration and Life magazine magazine.

Mydans became devoted to photography while attending Boston University. While working on the Boston University News as an undergraduate, his first reporting jobs were for The Boston Globe and the Boston Herald. After college, he went to New York as a writer for American Banker and then in 1935 to Washington to join a group of photographers in the Farm Security Administration.

In 1936, he joined Life as one of its earliest staff photographers (Alfred Eisenstaedt, Margaret Bourke-White, Thomas McAvoy and Peter Stackpole were the original staff photographers) and a pioneering photojournalist.

Mydans recorded photographic images o Carl Mydans was an American photographer who worked for the Farm Security Administration and Life magazine magazine.

Mydans became devoted to photography while attending Boston University. While working on the Boston University News as an undergraduate, his first reporting jobs were for The Boston Globe and the Boston Herald. After college, he went to New York as a writer for American Banker and then in 1935 to Washington to join a group of photographers in the Farm Security Administration.

In 1936, he joined Life as one of its earliest staff photographers (Alfred Eisenstaedt, Margaret Bourke-White, Thomas McAvoy and Peter Stackpole were the original staff photographers) and a pioneering photojournalist.

Mydans recorded photographic images of life and death throughout Europe and Asia during World War II. In 1941, the photographer and his wife Shelley Mydans, herself a journalist, were captured by the invading Japanese forces in the Philippines, held for nearly a year in Manila, then for another year in Shanghai, China, before they were released as part of a Prisoner of war exchange.

Mydans went back to the war in Europe. This time for pivotal battles in Italy and France in 1944.

In the Fall of 1944, General George McArthur sent a plane to pick up Mydans, who was then busy covering the defeat of Nazi Germany, to return him to the Pacific theatre so that he could accompany McArthur on his return to the Philippines.

The general knew that Carl had remained behind with the defenders of Corregidor when they were overrun by the Japanese, and the Japanese had imprisoned him and his wife for over two years.

This resulted in one of Carl's most memorable photos, of McArthur wading ashore.

Some of Mydans's more famous pictures include: the bombing of Chongqing, the Japanese surrender aboard the U.S.S. Missouri in 1945; angry French citizens shaving the heads of women accused of sleeping with Germans during the occupation in 1944; a roomful of excited royal youngsters and their staid older relatives in 1954; and a 1950 portrait of Douglas MacArthur smoking a pipe.
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	More Than Meets the Eye 4.33 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 1959 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Photographs of Carl Mydans by Carl Mydans, Annie Proulx (Contributor), Amy Pastan (Editor) 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2011 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Violent Peace: A Report On Wars In The Postwar World by Carl Mydans, Shelley Mydans 3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1968 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Photographs of Carl Mydans: The Library of Congress (Fields of Vision Book 4) by Carl Mydans (Contributor), Carl Mydans (Contributor), U.S. Government (Contributor) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	1948, K'al Maidŏnsŭ ka pon Yŏsun sakŏn = 1948, Yeosu-Suncheon uprising by Carl Mydans (Photographer), Yŏsu Chiyŏk Sahoe Yŏn'guso (Editor) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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“All of us live in history, whether we are aware of it or not, and die in drama. The sense of history and of drama comes to a man not because of who he is or what he does but flickeringly, as he is caught up in events, as his personality reacts, as he sees for a moment his place in the great flowing river of humanity.”
― Carl Mydans, More Than Meets the Eye

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