WILLIAM VANDIVERT | PHOTOGRAPHER

 William Vandivert(1912-1989) was another photographer as active within LIFE magazine as he was within the pages of FORTUNE. He had studied as a chemist and then at the Art Institute of Chicago. He began taking photographs and in 1938 he moved to work in England. During the Second World War he was active with his camera, photographing the destruction of Berlin and the scene inside Hitler's Bunker. After the War with his wife Rita and Robert Capa he became a founder member of Magnum although stayed only a year after its inception.
 

© Time Inc. William Vandivert.

Post-war Berlin © Time Inc. William Vandivert.

© Time Inc. William Vandivert.

Post-war Berlin © Time Inc. William Vandivert.

© Time Inc. William Vandivert.

 Post-war Berlin © Time Inc. William Vandivert.

 © Time Inc. William Vandivert.

Interior of the Reichstag covered in Russian graffiti, © Time Inc. William Vandivert. 1945

© Time Inc. William Vandivert.

Post-war Berlin © Time Inc. William Vandivert.

© Time Inc. William Vandivert.

Post-war Berlin © Time Inc. William Vandivert.

© Time Inc. William Vandivert.

Post-war Berlin © Time Inc. William Vandivert.

© Time Inc. William Vandivert.

Post-war Berlin © Time Inc. William Vandivert.

© Time Inc. William Vandivert.

Post-war Berlin © Time Inc. William Vandivert.

Mardi Gras 1930s © Time Inc. William Vandivert.

Old Kashgar native. Sinkiang, China 1943 © Time Inc. William Vandivert.

© Time Inc. William Vandivert.

All images © William Vandivert