William Vandivert

One of the series, captioned Terribly concentrated on food, child stuffs self at Ramkrishna Mission Ashram near Calcutta[5] was chosen in 1955 by curator Edward Steichen for the section 'Famine' in the world-touring Museum of Modern Art exhibition The Family of Man,[6] that was seen by 9 million visitors.

Printed quarter-page size, some show corpses that are still smouldering, while one picture filling page 35 illustrates an overview from inside the warehouse and the enormity of the atrocity.

[8] In 1945 just after the Battle of Berlin, Vandivert was the first Western photojournalist to photograph the city's ruins and Adolf Hitler's bunker, which were published by Life in July 1945.

Along with Robert Capa, Henri Cartier-Bresson, David Seymour, George Rodger and Maria Eisner, he helped found Magnum Photos in 1947.

[12] He continued his career as a freelance photographer, publishing numerous reports in Fortune magazine[13] and then devoted himself with his wife to documentary photography on nature and animals.