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Carl Mydans
Carl Mydans in Vietnam
1968
Photograph
14 x 11 ins (35.56 x 27.94 cm) (overall)
National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution
ID Number: 2005.0228.163, Accession number: 2005.0228, Catalog number: 2005.0228.163
LL/103672
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
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