He has been everywhere. For many years he worked under siege. He was not deterred from his vision nor his obligation to tell the story. He was obsessive about keeping notebooks containing captions and background material. Whenever humanly possible he developed his film every night in various dark bathrooms across the world so that LIFE would receive the story on time.
Ordinary persons find no difference between men.
Mydans has always seen the uniqueness of each person. Look at his photographs.