Hitler Death, April 30, 1945, Last Days Fuhrerbunker Berlin; Wm. Vandivert Photography, LIFE Mag

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(Wiki, Ed). William Vandivert (Aug. 16, 1912 – Dec. 1, 1989) was an American photographer, co-founder in 1947 of the agency Magnum Photos. Vandivert joined the Life magazine team in London in 1938. He was one of the few photographers who were working in color photography before the 2nd World War. Vandivert made color photo report in Paris in the summer of 1939. He was using Kodachrome.

The following year he photographed in color the Blitz in London. He covered the 2nd World War in various theatres of European operations. At Gardelegen concentration camp, 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.

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. Vandivert left Life's editorial team in 1946. - Magnum Photos: Along with Robert Capa, Henri Cartier-Bresson, David Seymour, George Rodger and Maria Eisner, he helped found Magnum Photos in 1947...
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