Join legendary photo editor John G. Morris for a conversation with Robert Pledge, founder and director of Contact Press Images, at the School at ICP.
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John Godfrey Morris was born in 1916 in Maple Shade, New Jersey, in the suburbs of Philadelphia, and spent his childhood and youth in Chicago, where he would go on to study and graduate in political science. He has since been intimately involved with the story of 20th-century photojournalism. As Life magazine’s photo editor for Europe, based in London, in charge of coordinating the photographic war coverage of the Western Front during World War II, he managed to save the 11 historic images by Robert Capa of the D-Day Normandy landing of June 6, 1944, which had been damaged in development. His career spans tenures with the Magnum photo agency, Ladies' Home Journal, The Washington Post, The New York Times, and the National Geographic magazine. His autobiography, Get the Picture, A Personal History of Photojournalism (Random House 1998; University of Chicago 2002) has been translated into five languages (French, Italian, Japanese, Polish, and Spanish). He has received prestigious awards such as the Dr. Erich Salomon Preis from the German Society of Photography (DGPh, Cologne, 2003) and the Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Center of Photography (ICP, New York, 2010). He was made a knight in France’s prestigious Légion d'Honneur in 2009. He lives in Paris.
Somewhere in France: John G. Morris and the Summer of 1944 is currently on view at ICP.
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