Carl Mydans
Carl Mydans grew up in Medford, Massachusetts, near Boston. While attending Boston University he became a reporter for the Boston Globe and Boston Herald. Mydans always took a camera with him when covering a story and soon was as skilled a photographer as he was a writer.
Roy Stryker hired Mydans in 1935 for the FSA photography project. Carl Mydans's stay was brief. He left in 1936 to join the staff of the recently formed Life Magazine. There he met and married a fellow journalist in 1938. Shelley and Carl Mydans worked thereafter as a photojournalism team. In 1941 they were captured by the Japanese in Manila and held until 1943, when they were freed as part of a prisoner-of-war exchange.
After the war the couple worked for Time and covered the Korean War before settling in England.
Learn about other Arkansas photographers, such as Marion Post Wolcott and Russell Lee.
