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She was not quite what you would call refined. She was not quite what you would call unrefined. She was the kind of person that keeps a parrot. ~Mark Twain~

life: As a photographer for LIFE magazine, Carl Mydans captured some of the most memorable images from World War II: General MacArthur coming ashore in the Philippines, for instance, and Japan’s surrender aboard the USS Missouri. But before that, in his work for the Farm Security Administration, he covered a different kind of battle — the battle against the crushing poverty faced by families across America during the Great Depression. “Almost half of these photographs show children; the marks of poverty seem to besmirch their innocence,” writes journalist and author Annie Proulx in her introduction to the Fields of Vision book compiling Mydans’ work. see more — Carl Mydans: Lens of the Depression

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As a photographer for LIFE magazine, Carl Mydans captured some of the most memorable images from World War II: General MacArthur coming ashore in the Philippines, for instance, and Japan’s surrender aboard the USS Missouri. But before that, in his work for the Farm Security Administration, he covered a different kind of battle — the battle against the crushing poverty faced by families across America during the Great Depression.

“Almost half of these photographs show children; the marks of poverty seem to besmirch their innocence,” writes journalist and author Annie Proulx in her introduction to the Fields of Vision book compiling Mydans’ work.

see more — Carl Mydans: Lens of the Depression

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