Object Details
- photographer
- Mydans, Carl
- Description
- In 1968, Carl Mydans, then in his sixties, continued traveling the globe and documenting history as it developed. That year, it meant going to Vietnam and covering yet another war.
- Sometimes people have asked me why I devoted so much of my life to covering these terrible scenes, these disasters, these wars. And there is an important reason. When I began as a photojournalist I was interested in the history that was developing around me and war is one of those stories.
- I want to make it clear it is not because I liked war. They were awful periods. I have often been in places where it was so terrible, where I was so frightened, where I could criticize myself for being there by saying what are you doing, why are you here? The answer has always been that what I am doing is important, and that's why I am here. I am making a record of historic times.
- Carl Mydans
- Location
- Currently not on view
- 1968
- ID Number
- 2005.0228.163
- accession number
- 2005.0228
- catalog number
- 2005.0228.163
- Object Name
- photograph
- Physical Description
- paper (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 14 in x 11 in; 35.56 cm x 27.94 cm
- place made
- Vietnam
- See more items in
- Work and Industry: Photographic History
- Photography
- Carl Mydans
- National Museum of American History
- Record ID
- nmah_1303549
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746ab-d827-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
