Despite his two years in captivity , Mydans bore no ill will toward the Asian nation , and accepted an assignment to head Time-Life 's Tokyo bureau with his wife . Time-Life was the publisher of Time , Life and other top magazines , which Mydans continued to provide with an array of visual stories . In 1948 , he just happened to be in the city of Fukui when a destructive earthquake struck ; some of his shots were taken on the street while buildings were collapsing around him
destructive earthquake
1948 Fukui earthquake
Carl Mydans