Carl mydans photo journalists

American photographer

Carl Mydans (May 20, 1907 – August 16, 2004) was an American photographer who worked for the Farm Security Administration and Life magazine.

Life

Mydans grew up playing on the Mystic River near Medford, near Boston, Massachusetts.

His father was an oboist.

Mydans became devoted to photography while in college at Boston University.

Photojournalists

While working on the Boston University News he abandoned childhood dreams of being a surgeon or a boat builder in favor of journalism.^[1] 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. There he worked with other photographers like Dorothea Lange and Ben Shahn to document the conditions of the American rural workers.^[2]

In 1935, he traveled throughout New England and America's South, d