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Carl Mydans
Crossing the Naktong With Thousands of Korean Refugees
By Lily Rothman and Liz Ronk
See Striking Portraits From a Japanese Segregation Camp in 1940s California
By Lily Rothman and Liz Ronk
Good Eggs: A Rare Look Inside the Soviet Caviar Harvest
By Yana Skorobogatov and Liz Ronk
See Colorized Photos of a Peaceful Pearl Harbor in the Months Before War
By Lily Rothman , Liz Ronk and Sanna Dullaway
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Carl Mydans
See Photos of the Original Production of 'Long Day's Journey Into Night'
The Eugene O'Neill drama is nominated for Best Revival of a Play at the 2016 Tony Awards
By Lily Rothman and Liz Ronk
June 10, 2016
Photographer Spotlight: Carl Mydans
As one of the first LIFE photographers, Mydans—born May 20, 1907—saw "more of history than most men"
By Lily Rothman and Liz Ronk
May 19, 2016
Why Hiroshima Was Celebrating Just 2 Years After the Bomb Dropped
On Aug. 6, 1947, the people of Hiroshima announced that their city was a "world mecca for peace"
By Eliza Berman
August 6, 2015
See Photos from the Early Days of the Korean War
On the 65th anniversary of the outbreak of war, a look back at the first month of U.S. involvement
By Eliza Berman
June 25, 2015
See Photos From a 1958 Storm that Dumped Six Feet of Snow on New York
This Nor'easter might be big, but LIFE has seen bigger
By Eliza Berman
January 26, 2015
World War II in Color: The Italian Campaign and the Road to Rome
LIFE.com presents rare and classic color photos made during World War II's pivotal Italian Campaign.
By Ben Cosgrove
November 16, 2014
MacArthur Lands at Luzon, the Philippines, 1945: Behind the Picture
Carl Mydans' photograph of Gen. Douglas MacArthur at Luzon distills something elemental about MacArthur's larger-than-life persona
By Ben Cosgrove
November 9, 2014
Tough Guys: Faces of the NFL, 1938
Portraits of pro football players in 1938, when the biggest sports in the U.S. were baseball, boxing and horse racing and the NFL barely registered on most fans' radar.
By Ben Cosgrove
September 15, 2014
After Hiroshima: Portraits of Survivors
LIFE.com presents photographs -- most of them never published in LIFE magazine -- taken in Hiroshima after the end of the Second World War.
By Ben Cosgrove
March 20, 2014
LIFE in Korea: Rare and Classic Photos From the 'Forgotten War'
On Veterans Day 2013, LIFE commemorates the Korean War with a selection of pictures -- many of which never ran in LIFE -- by three of the era's finest photographers: Margaret Bourke-White, Carl Mydans and Michael Rougier.
By Ben Cosgrove
March 18, 2014
Reindeer Go to Market Above the Arctic Circle, Sweden, 1955
As nights grow longer and the air colder, LIFE.com features Carl Mydans' photos from a long-ago assignment north of the Arctic Circle.
By Ben Cosgrove
December 18, 2013
JFK's Assassination: Portrait of an Era When Newspapers Mattered
Carl Mydans's famous photo provides, as clearly as one is ever likely to see, a graphic illustration of the old adage that journalism is "the first rough draft of history."
By Ben Cosgrove
November 21, 2013
Vlad the (Insect) Impaler: LIFE With Nabokov and His Butterflies
LIFE.com presents a series of photos made in Ithaca, New York, in 1958 that illustrate the great writer's obsession with the colorful order Lepidoptera.
By Ben Cosgrove
April 12, 2013
A House Divided: Photos From Korea's 1948 Yeosu-Suncheon Rebellion
As tensions on the Korean peninsula once again near the boiling point, LIFE presents photos from a largely forgotten rebellion 65 years ago that served as a brutal precursor to the Korean War to come.
By Liz Ronk
April 9, 2013
LIFE With Horace the Housebroken Hare
In 1956, the great photojournalist Carl Mydans memorably captured the mercurial essence of a figure as fascinating as any that ever graced the pages of LIFE: Horace the housebroken hare.
By Ben Cosgrove
March 22, 2013
Bobby Fischer: Mind Games
On the 40th anniversary of his legendary 1972 victory over Boris Spassky, LIFE.com presents pictures of Bobby Fischer as a young man.
By Ben Cosgrove
August 30, 2012
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