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Lot 336 PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF JOHN G. MORRIS
These prints are from my personal collection. My career as a picture editor began with Life magazine, where I worked throughout World War II. I was a Life Hollywood correspondent at 24, and at 27 Life's London Picture Editor. I salvaged Robert Capa's famous pictures of the D-Day landing on Omaha Beach from a darkroom accident. It was Capa who introduced me to Henri Cartier-Bresson, shortly after the Liberation of Paris. Capa also persuaded me to join Magnum as Executive Editor in 1953. There I worked closely with Cartier-Bresson and 'youngsters' such as Marc Riboud, finding in their contact sheets such treasures as Henri's photo of a deck hand's moment of relief and Marc's maestro of the Eiffel Tower. When W. Eugene Smith quit Life in a dispute over a story on Albert Schweitzer, I brought him into Magnum. We had worked together since 1939. I became the executor of his estate, and a principal founder of the W. Eugene Smith Memorial Fund. I was delighted when the Fund gave its 1982 grant to Sebastião Salgado, one of the greatest photographers of our times. Regarding these prints, the pictures speak for themselves. The words my friends added to them mean even more to me.
John G. (for Godfrey) Morris, Paris, March 2010
These prints are from my personal collection. My career as a picture editor began with Life magazine, where I worked throughout World War II. I was a Life Hollywood correspondent at 24, and at 27 Life's London Picture Editor. I salvaged Robert Capa's famous pictures of the D-Day landing on Omaha Beach from a darkroom accident. It was Capa who introduced me to Henri Cartier-Bresson, shortly after the Liberation of Paris. Capa also persuaded me to join Magnum as Executive Editor in 1953. There I worked closely with Cartier-Bresson and 'youngsters' such as Marc Riboud, finding in their contact sheets such treasures as Henri's photo of a deck hand's moment of relief and Marc's maestro of the Eiffel Tower. When W. Eugene Smith quit Life in a dispute over a story on Albert Schweitzer, I brought him into Magnum. We had worked together since 1939. I became the executor of his estate, and a principal founder of the W. Eugene Smith Memorial Fund. I was delighted when the Fund gave its 1982 grant to Sebastião Salgado, one of the greatest photographers of our times. Regarding these prints, the pictures speak for themselves. The words my friends added to them mean even more to me.
John G. (for Godfrey) Morris, Paris, March 2010
HENRI CARTIER-BRESSON (1908-2004)
The Last Drop, Kiel, Germany, September 1972
Closed15 April 2010
Price Realised
USD 4,375