Carl Mydans photographs, 1935-1968

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Carl Mydans photographs, 1935-1968

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Photojournalist (1907-2004) for the Farm Security Administration and magazine. Life Collection includes (66) 8x10 and 11x14 photographs made for the Farm Security Administration and for magazine from 1935-1968. Life

2.0 Linear Feet; 66 Items

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David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library

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Mydans, Carl

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Carl Mydans was an American photographer who spent most of his career with Life magazine. Some of his most memorable photographs were taken during World War II. Born on May 20, 1907, Mydans studied journalism and photography in Boston in 1930 and spent some time as a writer in New York. He began working for the Farm Security Administration in 1935, where he documented rural and farm life, including migrant farm families, in the South and in New England. In 1936, he was h...