Carl Mydans

Born in Massachusetts, near Boston, in 1907, Mydans’ keen sensitivity and honesty compelled him toward a lifetime of social and historical documentary photography. After working for the Boston Globe and the Boston Herald, he joined the photographic staff of the Farm Security Administration in 1936, and then joined LIFE magazine as a staff photographer just after the inaugural issue. He photographed major news and feature stories in the United States, Europe, and Asia.

Unanimously hailed as one of the most significant photographers of our time and a legend of photojournalism, Carl Mydans died in August, 2004, at age 97.

A "Chain Gang" of New York Stock Exchange Officers Carries Traded Securities Each Day to Banks and Brokerage Houses (Time Inc.)
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A Pioneer Organizer Of The Office Workers' Union, Wall Street and Broad Street, NYC, 1936
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Demonstrators in a Works Progress Administration (WPA) Strike, 1937 (Time Inc.)
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Cafe in Pikesville, Tennessee, 1936 (for the Farm Security Administration) ?Time Inc.
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Brick carrier at model community planned by the Suburban Division of the U.S. Resettlement Administration, Greenbelt, Maryland, 1936 (for the Farm Security Administration) (Time Inc.)
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The Nation's Capitol viewed from a nearby slum area, Washington, DC 1936 (for the Farm Security Administration) (Time Inc.)
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Miners at American Radiator Mine, Mt. Pleasant, PA, 1936
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Schoolboys reading books in an outdoor classroom for migrant children at Skyline Farms, near Scottsboro, Alabama June 1936
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Daughter of Migrant Workers near Raymondville, Texas, 1937 (Time Inc.)
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Migrant woman by the side of the road, Texas, 1937
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Boy Sitting on a Bed in Oil Boom Town of Freer, Texas, 1937 (Life Magazine/Time Warner Inc.)
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A view showing The Purple Sage Tavern, West George, Texas, 1939 (Time Inc.)
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Loungers Hang Around the Duval Club Lunchroom, Freer, Texas (Time Inc.)
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Roustabouts in Freer, Texas, take time off from their job, 1937 (Life Magazine/Time Warner Inc.)
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Oil field worker, Freer, Texas,1937
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Dancing at Rosie's Cafe, Texas, 1937
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A view showing the Tamale industry in Brownsville Marketplace, Brownsville, Texas, 1939 (Time Inc.)
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A shoe store in Nacoma, the oldest boot manufacturing center in the state, Nacoma, Texas, Texas, 1939 (Time Inc.)
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Transient worker camp near Raymondsville, Texas, 1936
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Russo-Finnish Winter War (1939-40), Reindeer being herded, Finland, 1940
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Frozen corpse of a Russian soldier, killed in the Second Battle of Suomussalami during the Russo-Finnish War, 1940
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Ministers Meeting, Fascist Rome, Italy, 1940
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A French Marquis, Resistance Fighter, Surfaces in Grenoble After the Liberation, 1944
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Female French Collaborator Having Her Head Shaved During Liberation of Marseilles, 1944
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General Douglas Macarthur, Just Before Going Ashore at Lingayen Gulf in Luzon, January 9 (Time, Inc.)
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General Douglas MacArthur Landing at Luzon (Time Inc.)
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Japanese Surrender on Board the U.S.S. Missouri in Tokyo Bay, September 2, 1945 (Life Magazine/Time Warner Inc.)
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Prime Minister Winston Churchill at Biggleswade, England, 1955 (Life Magazine/Time Warner Inc.)
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Author Gertrude Stein walking with Alice B. Toklas and their dog, Basket, after liberation in France, September, 1944
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General and former Prime Minister Hideki Tojo receives blood from an American Army Unit, September, 1945
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General Tojo Listens to Testimony during His Trial for War Crimes. Tokyo, 1948
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A woman draws water in the midst of rubble, two years after the bombing of Hiroshima
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Unloading Rice at Kobe, Japan,. 1949
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he newly created 'Japanese Police Force' moves out of camp for winter training, Hokkaido, Japan, 1951
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Woman Mourning in the Ruins Near Pengpu During the China Wars,.1948
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The Hiwa Department store crumbling from earthquake, Fukui, Japan, 1948
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Hat seller, Lanchow, China, 1941
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A Child Protects Her Brother from a Stranger with a Camera, Tsingtao, China (Time Inc.)
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Korean mother carries her baby and worldly goods while fleeing fighting, Seoul, Korea, 1951
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Corpsman Carries Wounded GI to Medical Station Near Kwan-ni, Korea, 1950
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A Turkish Sentry of the United Nations Forces Stands Watching the Frozen Dawn. Korea, 1951
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The Queen’s Messenger leaving Buckingham Palace with dispatches for the Foreign Office, 1954
Senator John F. Kennedy Campaigning with his Wife in Boston (Time, Inc.)
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On the 6:25 from Grand Central to Stamford, CT, November 22, 1963
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New York Commuters reading of John F. Kennedy;s assassination, 1963
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Fog Coming in, Swansea, Wales, 1954
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Landscape, Wales (Time, Inc.)
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Rector, Church at Warleggan, England , 1953
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Indira Gandhi, Canada 1956
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Vladimir Nobokov, Ithaca, NY, 1958
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Nobel Prize Laureate William Faulkner, West Point, 1962 (Time Inc.)
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Young Americans at Lincoln Memorial, Washington, DC
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