Spends over a year in the USA working on
the so-called ‘posthumous’ exhibition of his work,
proposed by the Museum of Modern Art in New York at a time
when he was believed to have died in the war. Travels in the
USA with John Malcolm Brinnin.
With Robert Capa, David Seymour (Chim), William
Vandivert and George Rodger founds the cooperative agency Magnum
Photos.
In the Far East for three years, in India
for the death of Gandhi, China for the last six months of the
Kuomintang and the first six months of the People’s Republic
and in Indonesia for independence.