William Vandivert was an American photographer, co-founder in 1947 of the agency Magnum Photos.
10 Facts About William Vandivert
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William Vandivert studied chemistry from 1928 to 1930 at Beloit College in Wisconsin, and then photography at the Art Institute of Chicago from 1930 to 1935.
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William Vandivert was one of the few photographers who had worked in color photography before the Second World War.
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William Vandivert made color photo report in Paris in the summer of 1939.
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William Vandivert covered the Second World War in various theatres of European operations.
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At Gardelegen concentration camp, William Vandivert took photographs reproduced in the May 7,1945, issue of Life that show in detail the remains of hundreds of political prisoners who were locked in a warehouse when the German camp guards set it on fire; an atrocity discovered by Allied troops arriving on April 14, two days later.
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In 1945 just after the Battle of Berlin, William 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.
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William Vandivert continued his career as a freelance photographer, publishing numerous reports in Fortune magazine and then devoted himself with his wife to documentary photography on nature and animals.
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William Vandivert died on December 1,1989, at the age of 77.
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William Vandivert's photographs were included in these exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art, New York;.