John G. Morris
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December 7, 1916 Maple Shade, New Jersey |
| Alma mater | University of Chicago (LAB, 1933 and AB, 1937) |
| Occupation | Journalist, Photoeditor, Author |
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John Godfrey Morris (born December 7, 1916 in Maple Shade, New Jersey) is an American picture editor and an important figure in the history of photojournalism.
Morris has spent a lifetime editing photographs for magazines and newspapers, working with hundreds of photographers.
He worked for the weekly picture magazine Life throughout World War II. As Life's London Picture Editor he was responsible for the coverage of the invasion of France on June 6, 1944 - D-Day, thus editing the historic photos of Robert Capa. After the war he became successively the Picture Editor of the U.S. monthly Ladies' Home Journal, Executive Editor of Magnum Photos, Assistant Managing Editor for Graphics of The Washington Post and Picture Editor of The New York Times.
In 1983 he moved to Paris, as the European correspondent of National Geographic. Now a freelance writer and editor, his primary concern is working for peace. He turned 100 in December 2016.
His autobiography Get the Picture: a Personal History of Photojournalism was published by Random House in 1998 and republished in paperback by The University of Chicago Press in 2002. It has been translated into French (Éditions de La Martinière, 1999), Japanese, Polish (Wydanie pierwsze, 2007), Italian (Contrasto Due, 2011) and Spanish (La Fabrica, 2013).
He is co-author of Robert Capa: D-Day, in French and English (Point de Vues, 2004).
In 2014, his book Quelque Part en France - L'Été 1944 de John G. Morris (Somewhere in France - The Summer 1944 of John G. Morris) was published by Marabout (Hachette). The book was conceived by Robert Pledge of Contact Press Images. It contains the photographs John G. Morris took during his Summer 1944 trip to Normandy, shortly after the D-Day landing on June 6, 1944, and the letters to his wife written "somewhere in France."
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