John G. Morris is a University of Chicagoan who served as a Hollywood correspondent for Life, picture editor for Life's London bureau during World War II, picture editor at Ladies' Home Journal, the first executive editor of the Magnum Photos press agency, picture editor for both the Washington Post and the New York Times, and a correspondent and editor for National Geographic.
"An exciting, revealing trip through the intricacies of picture publishing in its truest light." - Gordon Parks, author of Half Past Autumn; "Going through Morris's book of memories, I felt I was sitting in front of a magic lantern." - Henri Cartier-Bresson; "During his long and eventful career, John G. Morris operated at the heart of 20th-century photojournalism, working as a picture editor for Life, Magnum, The Washington Post, The New York Times and National Geographic....[H]e weaves photographers, anecdotes, players, history and a credo or two into an engaging and informative tale." - Rosemary Ranck, New York Times Book Review
Morris deserves to be better known by all who love good documentary and news photography. He has led or worked at some of the defining illustrated news magazines (Life, Ladies' Home Journal, and the New York Times Magazine) and media empires of the 20th century, worked closely with the best photographers of our times (Robert Capa, W. Eugene Smith, Cartier Bresson, "Chim" Seymour, George Rodger, and Lee Miller), and now tells the story of how our century's most powerful photographs came to be made. His inside stories about photographers, editors, and publishers are told here for the first time. Morris describes himself as a journalist and picture editor, not a reporter or photographer. He writes in a forthright and engaging style about his experiences in war and peace with the photographers who created the enduring visual records of the second half of this century. Readers will be grateful that he has finally put his rich memories on paper. Highly recommended, especially for photography and photojournalism collections.ÄKathleen Collins, Bank of America Archives, San Francisco
"An exciting, revealing trip through the intricacies of picture publishing in its truest light." - Gordon Parks, author of Half Past Autumn; "Going through Morris's book of memories, I felt I was sitting in front of a magic lantern." - Henri Cartier-Bresson; "During his long and eventful career, John G. Morris operated at the heart of 20th-century photojournalism, working as a picture editor for Life, Magnum, The Washington Post, The New York Times and National Geographic....[H]e weaves photographers, anecdotes, players, history and a credo or two into an engaging and informative tale." - Rosemary Ranck, New York Times Book Review
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