Another thread of a favourite photographer: Life magazine's Carl Mydans 🧡
Here with his Contax camera in a great shot by his colleague Andreas Feininger, 1942
Vladimir Nabokov by Carl Mydans
Ithaca, New York, September 1958
Herman Wouk by Carl Mydans
Times Square, 1962
Joe DiMaggio by Carl Mydans, 1939
Joltin' Joe hit .381 that year; his on-base percentage was .448
Gertrude Stein & Alice B. Toklas with their poodle Basket
πŸ“· Carl Mydans, 1944
S. J. Perelman by Carl Mydans, 1961
"Before they made Perelman, they broke the mold."
I went looking for the source of this quote, & of course he said it about himself.
Carl Mydans
A migrant worker & his two children, Raymondville, Texas, 1937
Bobby Fischer by Carl Mydans, 1962
General MacArthur coming ashore at Lingayen Gulf in the Philippines, 1945
Probably the most famous of all the pictures taken by Life's Carl Mydans.
Carl Mydans' portrait of Alfred Eisenstaedt with his Rolleiflex, from 1944
... and Alfred returned the favour: Carl Mydans with his Contax, by Alfred Eisenstaedt, 1944
William Faulkner by Carl Mydans, 1962
Indira Gandhi by Carl Mydans
New York, 1956
Another superb portrait of Bobby Fischer by Carl Mydans, 1962
Carl Mydans
JFK & Caroline go for a walk in Georgetown, 1960
Another famous photograph by Carl Mydans, following JFK's assassination, November 1963
Muriel Spark by Carl Mydans, 1965
Philip Roth with his first wife Maggie Martinson
πŸ“· Carl Mydans, 1962
A great shot of London in the fog by Carl Mydans, 1952
Ezra Pound by Carl Mydans, 1940
According to the Life caption, he's "composing profacist commentaries on stationary emblazoned with Mussolini's motto 'Liberty is a Duty, Not a Right'."
Carl & Shelley Mydans by Nina Leen
Photographer Carl & journalist Shelley were the first husband & wife team to work for Life magazine. They were were interned by the Japanese for a year in Manila, then for another year in Shanghai, before a prison-of-war exchange in 1943.
John O'Hara by Carl Mydans
The Nabokovs at work: Vladimir dictates & Vera types
πŸ“· Carl Mydans, 1958
James Baldwin by Carl Mydans, 1962
Grace Kelly on the set of High Noon
πŸ“· Carl Mydans, 1951
I missed this portrait when I did Grace Kelly's birthday thread yesterday.
Leonard Bernstein by Carl Mydans, 1959
This was taken during a New York Philharmonic concert in Moscow
Carl Mydans
Tsingtao, 1948

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