Oral history interview with Carl Mydans
odd: label: General
content: Originally recorded on 1 sound tape reel. Reformatted in 2010 as 2 digital wav files. Duration is 1 hr., 28 min.
name: label: Interviewee
content: Mydans, Carl
label: Interviewer
content: Doud, Richard Keith
label: Names
content: Life magazine
label: Names
content: New Deal and the Arts Oral History Project
label: Names
content: United States. Farm Security Administration. Historical Section
label: Names
content: Stryker, Roy Emerson, 1893-1975
topic: label: Topic
content: Documentary photography
label: Topic
content: Photographers -- United States -- Interviews
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: This interview is part of the Archives of American Art Oral History Program, started in 1958 to document the history of the visual arts in the United States, primarily through interviews with artists, historians, dealers, critics and administrators.
creator: label: Interviewee
content: Mydans, Carl
label: Interviewer
content: Doud, Richard Keith
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Carl Mydans (1907-2004) was a photographer, associated with the Farm Security Administration.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 15 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1964 Apr. 29
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.mydans64
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Pages
label: Type
content: Sound recordings
label: Type
content: Interviews
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: Transcript is available on the Archives of American Art's website.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Sound recordings
label: Genre/Form
content: Interviews
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: An interview with Carl Mydans conducted 1964 April 29, by Richard K. Doud, for the Archives of American Art.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Mydans speaks of his background in photography and photojournalism; joining the Farm Security Administration staff; Roy Stryker as a catalyst for creativity; some of his outstanding experiences with the FSA; styles of different photographers; the significance of the FSA in American history, and how it changed Americans' awareness of other Americans; subjects of his photographs and their treatment of him; the influence of his fellow FSA photographers; technological changes in photography.