Carl Mydans

♂ *1907-2004 / United States

Works

Contacts for the work of Carl Mydans

Steichen Collections LU

Steichen Collections
Château de Clervaux
9712 Clervaux
00352-929657
fom@cna.etat.lu
steichencollections-cna.lu
Mar-Dec: Wed-Sun 12-18

Solo exhibitions

CARL MYDANS

Monroe Gallery, Santa Fe (US)
10 Feb 2023 – 17 Apr 2023
Vintage FSA

Gallery M, Denver (US)
1 Mar 2016 – 30 Apr 2016
The early years

Monroe Gallery, Santa Fe (US)
1 Oct 2010 – 21 Nov 2010
Four Decades at LIFE

Alan Klotz Gallery, New York (US)
11 Jan 2007 – 3 Mar 2007
Photojournalist

Monroe Gallery, Santa Fe (US)
8 Apr 2005 – 26 Jun 2005
Carl Mydans

Gallery M, Denver (US)
8 Oct 2004 – 31 Jan 2005

Group

THE FAMILY OF MAN

UNESCO Memory of the World

Steichen Collections, Clervaux (LU)
18 Mar 2026 – 29 Dec 2026

with Ansel Adams, Lola Alvarez Bravo, Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Erich Andres, Emmy Andriesse, Diane Arbus, Allen Arbus, Eve Arnold, Richard Avedon, Ruth-Marion Baruch, Lou Bernstein, Eva Besnyoe …
America The Beautiful

Monroe Gallery, Santa Fe (US)
8 May 2026 – 9 Aug 2026

with Nina Berman, Margaret Bourke-White, David Butow, Loomis Dean, Alfred Eisenstaedt, Bill Eppridge, Ashley Gilbertson, Ron Haviv, Neil Leifer, Charles Moore, Gordon Parks, Mark Peterson …
Looking at LIFE

Staley-Wise Gallery, New York (US)
11 Dec 2025 – 21 Feb 2026

with Harry Benson, Margaret Bourke-White, Loomis Dean, John Dominis, Alfred Eisenstaedt, Andreas Feininger, Abe Frajndlich, Nina Leen
WWII - Eighty Years

Monroe Gallery, Santa Fe (US)
18 Apr 2025 – 22 Jun 2025

with Berenice Abbott, Margaret Bourke-White, Alfred Eisenstaedt, Andreas Feininger, Ernst Haas, Joe Rosenthal, George Silk, Tony Vaccaro, Ida Wyman
LOVING

Richard and Mildred Loving

Monroe Gallery, Santa Fe (US)
14 Feb 2025 – 13 Apr 2025

with Sid Avery, Harry Benson, Loomis Dean, Alfred Eisenstaedt, Ernst Haas, Sonia Handelman Meyer, Steve Schapiro, Tony Vaccaro, Greg Villet
Frozen In Time

Monroe Gallery, Santa Fe (US)
29 Nov 2024 – 26 Jan 2025

with John Dominis, Alfred Eisenstaedt, Bill Eppridge, Kendall Nelson, Steve Schapiro, George Silk, Tony Vaccaro, Stephen Wilkes, Ida Wyman
The Best Of Us

Monroe Gallery, Santa Fe (US)
4 Oct 2024 – 17 Nov 2024

with Bill Eppridge, Ashley Gilbertson, Sonia Handelman Meyer, Kai Regan, Steve Schapiro, Ida Wyman
1964

Monroe Gallery, Santa Fe (US)
20 Apr 2024 – 23 Jun 2024

with Eddie Adams, Cornell Capa, Loomis Dean, Bill Eppridge, Bob Gomel, Steve Schapiro
This Fragile Earth

Monroe Gallery, Santa Fe (US)
24 Nov 2023 – 21 Jan 2024

with Nina Berman, Margaret Bourke-White, David Butow, Ashley Gilbertson, Ed Kashi, Arthur Rothstein, Shepard Sherbell, Grey Villet, Stephen Wilkes
A fragment of ‘The Family of Man’

one of the most famous photography exhibitions (1955, MoMA)

Kaunas Photography Gallery, Kaunas (LT)
25 Nov 2022 – 31 Dec 2022

with Robert Carrington, Nat Farbman, Vito Fiorenza, Nina Leen
The Power of Photography

Peter Fetterman Gallery, Santa Monica (US)
11 Jun 2022 – 3 Sep 2022

with Berenice Abbott, Ansel Adams, Kristoffer Albrecht, Eve Arnold, Sid Avery, David Bailey, Bruno Barbey, Lillian Bassman, Filippo Belli, Gianni Berengo Gardin, Joel Bernstein, Samuel Bourne …
THE LIFE PHOTOGRAPHERS

Monroe Gallery, Santa Fe (US)
6 May 2022 – 26 Jun 2022

with Margaret Bourke-White, Edmund Clark, John Dominis, Alfred Eisenstaedt, Bill Eppridge, Andreas Feininger, Bob Gomel, Martha Holmes, Bill Ray
Signs Of The Times

Monroe Gallery, Santa Fe (US)
1 Oct 2021 – 21 Nov 2021

with Nina Berman, Margaret Bourke-White, Bill Eppridge, Ashley Gilbertson, Bob Gomel, Ernst Haas, Neil Leifer, Ken Regan, Steve Schapiro, Ernest C. Withers
THE CAMPAIGN

Monroe Gallery, Santa Fe (US)
18 Sep 2020 – 15 Nov 2020

with Cornell Capa, Bill Eppridge, Bill Ray, Greg Villet
One Third of a Nation

The Photographs of the Farm Security Administration

Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York (US)
19 Mar 2020 – 9 May 2020

with Walker Evans, Dorothea Lange, Russell Lee, Gordon Parks, Marion Post Wolcott, David Robbins, Arthur Rothstein, Peter Sekaer, Ben Shahn
LIFE

Selected prints from the LIFE Magazine Collection (1936-2002)

Atlas Gallery, London (GB)
29 Nov 2019 – 1 Feb 2020

with Margaret Bourke-White, Edward Clark, Loomis Dean, John Dominis, Alfred Eisenstaedt, Eliot Elisofon, J. R. Eyerman, Andreas Feininger, Nina Leen, John Loengard, Joe Rosenthal
Killed Negatives

Unseen Images of 1930s America

Whitechapel Art Gallery, London (GB)
16 May 2018 – 26 Aug 2018

with Arthur Ann Segan, Paul carter, Jack Delano, Walker Evans, Theodor Jung, Dorothea Lange, Russell Lee, Lisa Oppenheim, Marion Post Wolcott, Ben Shahn, John Vachon
LIFE in Pictures

Monroe Gallery, Santa Fe (US)
27 Apr 2018 – 17 Jun 2018

with Margaret Bourke-White, Loomis Dean, John Dominis, Alfred Eisenstaedt, Bill Eppridge, Andreas Feininger, Bob Gomel, Martha Holmes, Yale Joel, Joe McNally, Ralph Morse, Bill Ray …
History In A Moment

The Power of Visual Storytelling

Monroe Gallery, Santa Fe (US)
30 Sep 2016 – 20 Nov 2016

with Margaret Bourke-White, Edmund Clark, Alfred Eisenstaedt, Charles Moore, Steve Schapiro, George Silk, Tony Vaccaro, Ida Wyman
American Social Photography in the thirties

IVAM Institut d'Art Modern, Valencia (ES)
21 Apr 2016 – 30 Oct 2016

with Arthur Ann Segan, Jack Delano, Walker Evans, Lewis Hine, Dorothea Lange, Russell Lee, Gordon Parks, Marion Post Wolcott, Ralph Steiner, Paul Strand
Reopening

THE BITTER YEARS 1935-1941

THE BITTER YEARS, Dudelange (LU)
21 Jul 2016 – 23 Jul 2016

with Arthur Ann Segan, Paul carter, Jack Delano, Walker Evans, Theodor Jung, Dorothea Lange, Russell Lee, Marion Post Wolcott, Ben Shahn, John Vachon
Summer Sale 2014

Alan Klotz Gallery, New York (US)
11 Jul 2014 – 1 Sep 2014

with Ansel Adams, Arthur Ann Segan, Eugene Atget, Brassai, Harry Callahan, Robert Capa, Carl Chiarenza, Václav Chochola, Edward S. Curtis, Andreas Feininger, Lewis Hine, Andre Kertesz …
SCENE & SEEN

IMAGES TO AWAKEN THE INNER TRAVELER

Holden Luntz Gallery, Palm Beach (US)
17 May 2014 – 6 Jul 2014

with Berenice Abbott, Margaret Bourke-White, Nick Brandt, Jean-Baptiste Huynh, Massimo Listri, Michael Massaia
The LIFE Photographers

Monroe Gallery, Santa Fe (US)
29 Nov 2013 – 24 Jan 2014

with Margaret Bourke-White, John Dominis, Alfred Eisenstaedt, Bob Gomel
More American Photographs

UCR ARTS , Riverside (US)
28 Sep 2013 – 11 Jan 2014

with Walead Beshty, Esther Bubley, Larry Clark, Marjory Collins, Jack Delano, Roe Ethridge, Walker Evans, Katy Grannan, William E. Jones, Dorothea Lange, Russell Lee, Sharon Lockhart …
More American Photographs

Wexner Center for Art, Columbus (US)
27 Jan 2013 – 7 Apr 2013

with Arthur Ann Segan, Walead Beshty, Esther Bubley, Larry Clark, Marjory Collins, Jack Delano, Roe Ethridge, Walker Evans, Katy Grannan, William E. Jones, Dorothea Lange, Russell Lee …
American way of LIFE

Galerie Stephen Hoffman, München (DE)
2 Nov 2011 – 24 Dec 2011

with Margaret Bourke-White, Cornell Capa, Edward Clark, Loomis Dean, John Dominis, Alfred Eisenstaedt, J. R. Eyerman, Andreas Feininger, Allan Grant, Yale Joel, Lisa Larsen, Nina Leen …
More American Photographs

Wattis Institute for Contemporary Art, San Francisco (US)
4 Oct 2011 – 17 Dec 2011

with Arthur Ann Segan, Walead Beshty, Esther Bubley, Larry Clark, Marjory Collins, Jack Delano, Roe Ethridge, Walker Evans, Katy Grannan, William E. Jones, Dorothea Lange, Russell Lee …
History's Big Picture

Monroe Gallery, Santa Fe (US)
1 Jul 2011 – 25 Sep 2011

with Alfred Eisenstaedt, Ernst Haas, Joe Rosenthal
In Focus: The Worker

The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles (US)
3 Nov 2009 – 21 Mar 2010

with Albert Sands Southworth & Josiah Johnson Hawes, Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Arthur Ann Segan, Eugene Atget, Felice Beato, Brassai, Larry Burrows , Henri Cartier-Bresson, Robert Doisneau, Louis-Emile Durandelle, Thomas Eakins, William Eggleston …
On the town

Photographs of timeless celebrations and merriment

Monroe Gallery, Santa Fe (US)
27 Nov 2009 – 30 Jan 2010

with Harry Benson, John Dominis, Alfred Eisenstaedt, Martha Holmes, Just Loomis, Steve Schapiro
American Photographs - Menschenbilder - Bilderland

Stiftung Landdrostei, Pinneberg (DE)
30 Mar 2007 – 3 Jun 2007

with Berenice Abbott, Margaret Bourke-White, Alvin Langdon Coburn, Walker Evans, Lewis Hine, Dorothea Lange, Russell Lee, Charles Jr. Sheeler, Arthur Siegel, Edward Steichen, Alfred Stieglitz, Paul Strand …
Life/Style

70 years of style and culture as seen through the pages of LIFE Magazine

Monroe Gallery, Santa Fe (US)
15 Dec 2006 – 4 Feb 2007

with Harry Benson, Margaret Bourke-White, Cornell Capa, Robert Capa, Loomis Dean, John Dominis, Alfred Eisenstaedt, Bill Eppridge, John Loengard, Ida Wyman
Encontros da Imagem 2006

Encontros da Imagem, Braga (PT)
30 Sep 2006 – 29 Oct 2006

with Esther Bubley, Serge Clement, Antoine d'Agata, Jack Delano, Jim Dow, Walker Evans, Luisa Ferreira, Arno Fischer, Cristina Garcia Rodero, Gilbert Garcin, Colin Gray, Brian Griffin …
LIFE i grandi fotografi

FORMA per la Fotografia, Milano (IT)
20 Apr 2006 – 3 Sep 2006

with Margaret Bourke-White, Robert Capa, Alfred Eisenstaedt, Gordon Parks, W. Eugene Smith
The Arts

more than 50 classic photographs portraying iconic personalities from the arts

Monroe Gallery, Santa Fe (US)
3 Feb 2006 – 16 Apr 2006

with Berenice Abbott, Alfred Eisenstaedt, Ernst Haas, Arnold Newman, Ruth Orkin, Ida Wyman
Winter in Black and White

Monroe Gallery, Santa Fe (US)
25 Nov 2005 – 29 Jan 2006

with Robert Doisneau, John Dominis, Alfred Eisenstaedt, Andreas Feininger, Andre Kertesz, Jacques-Henri Lartigue, Neil Leifer, John Loengard, Ruth Orkin, Bill Perlmutter, Shepard Sherbell, George Silk …
The LIFE Gallery of Photography

Madelyn Jordon Fine Art, Scarsdale (US)
2 Dec 2005 – 19 Jan 2006

with Margaret Bourke-White, John Dominis, Alfred Eisenstaedt, Andreas Feininger, Yale Joel
Only Skin Deep: Changing Visions of the American Self

Museum Photographic Arts, San Diego (US)
1 Oct 2005 – 31 Dec 2005

with Diane Arbus, Shimon Attie, Aziz + Cucher, Vanessa Beecroft, Sandra Bermudez, Margaret Bourke-White, Christina Calderón, Louise Dahl-Wolfe, Bruce Davidson, Walker Evans, Nan Goldin, Dinh Q. Le …
When we were young

Monroe Gallery, Santa Fe (US)
8 Jul 2005 – 2 Oct 2005

with Margaret Bourke-White, Alfred Eisenstaedt, Lewis Hine, Willy Ronis, Nick (Huynh Cong) Ut, Ida Wyman
Looking at LIFE

umfassende Ausstellung berühmter LIFE Photographen

Galerie Stephen Hoffman, München (DE)
26 Feb 2005 – 23 Apr 2005

with Margaret Bourke-White, Edward Clark, Loomis Dean, John Dominis, Alfred Eisenstaedt, Andreas Feininger, Allan Grant, Philippe Halsman, Martha Holmes, Yale Joel, John Leongard, Gjon Mili …
ACCROCHAGE

Originalphotographien & Vintages

Galerie Stephen Hoffman, München (DE)
18 Jan 2005 – 19 Feb 2005

with Domenico Anderson, Bruno Bernard (Bernard of Hollywood), Margaret Bourke-White, Ted Croner, Helen Levitt, John Loengard, Ralph Morse, Bert Stern
The great LIFE Photographers

Monroe Gallery, Santa Fe (US)
26 Nov 2004 – 30 Jan 2005

with Harry Benson, Margaret Bourke-White, John Dominis, Alfred Eisenstaedt, Andreas Feininger
Icons. Faces of Ground Zero

Monroe Gallery, Santa Fe (US)
9 Jul 2004 – 26 Sep 2004

with Berenice Abbott, Eddie Adams, Robert Doisneau, Harold E. Edgerton, Alfred Eisenstaedt, Andreas Feininger, W. Eugene Smith, Nick (Huynh Cong) Ut
Love/Kiss: Classic Images of Romance By Master Photographers

Monroe Gallery, Santa Fe (US)
16 Jan 2004 – 28 Mar 2004

with Ted Allen, Sid Avery, Harry Benson, Margaret Bourke-White, Loomis Dean, Robert Doisneau, John Dominis, Alfred Eisenstaedt, Bob Gruen, Ernst Haas, Mark Edward Harris, Karen Kuehn …
Life Magazine: A Selection of Historical Photographs

Afterimage Gallery, Dallas (US)
17 Jan 2004 – 13 Mar 2004

with Margaret Bourke-White, Edward Clark, Loomis Dean, John Dominis, Alfred Eisenstaedt, Andreas Feininger, Martha Holmes
Only Skin Deep: Changing Visions of the American Self

ICP Center of Photography, New York (US)
12 Dec 2003 – 29 Feb 2004

with Ansel Adams, Andrea Robbins & Max Becher, Eleanor Antin, Diane Arbus, Shimon Attie, Richard Avedon, Aziz + Cucher, John Baldessari, Tina Barney, Vanessa Beecroft, Sandra Bermudez, Louis Carlos Bernal …
Planes, Trains & Automobiles (and a few Boats too!)

Apex Fine Art, Los Angeles (US)
4 Apr 2003 – 10 May 2003

with Margaret Bourke-White, Louis Faurer, Andreas Feininger, Ernst Haas
China: Fifty Years Inside the People's Republic

Asia Society, New York (US)
8 Oct 2000 – 2 Jan 2001

with Eve Arnold, Rene Burri, Robert Capa, WU Jialin, WANG Jinsong, Antonin Kratochvil, Reagan Louie, ZHENG Nong, Sebastiao Salgado, LI Zhensheng
The Family of Man

MoMA Museum Modern Art, New York (US)
24 Jan 1955 – 8 May 1955

with Ansel Adams, Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Lola Alvarez Bravo, Erich Andres, Emmy Andriesse, Diane Arbus, Allen Arbus, Eve Arnold, Richard Avedon, Ruth-Marion Baruch, Hugh Bell , Wermund Bendtsen …

Events

Photographies Online

ADER NORDMANN DOMINIQUE, Paris (FR)
3 Apr 2026 – 14 Apr 2026

with Ottomar Anschütz, Felice Beato, Larry Clark, Tiane Doan na Champassak, Louis-Emile Durandelle, Daniel Frasnay, Vincenzo Galdi , Ernst Haas, Yousuf Karsh, Francois Kollar, Gustave Le Gray, Felix Nadar …
5th Annual Photo Auction Benefit

Bronx Documentary Center, New York (US)

with Victor J. Blue, Pablo Bronstein, Patrick Brown, Zackary Canepari, Henry Chalfant, Donna Ferrato, Robin Hammond, Ed Kashi, Yuri Kozyrev, Arthur Leipzig, Susan Meiselas, Ruben Natal San Miguel …