Carl Mydans in Vietnam
date: label: Date made
content: 1968
name: label: photographer
content: Mydans, Carl
notes: label: Description
content: 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.
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content: <i>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.
label: Description
content: 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.</i>
label: Description
content: Carl Mydans
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Vietnam
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content: Work and Industry: Photographic History
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content: Photography
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content: Carl Mydans
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2005.0228.163
label: accession number
content: 2005.0228
label: catalog number
content: 2005.0228.163
objectType: label: Object Name
content: photograph
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 14 in x 11 in; 35.56 cm x 27.94 cm