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JOHN G. MORRIS COLLECTION

Photojournalism & Photojournalists

伝説の写真誌編集者　ジョン・G・モリス旧蔵

“報道写真・報道写真家”コレクション

英書(500点)及びヨーロッパ書〔独仏伊他〕（110点）計610点

￥７，３５０，０００ 〔税込〕

このコレクションは、元ライフ誌、ワシントン・ポスト紙、ニューヨーク・タイムズ紙の著名な写真編集者、Magnum Photos の初代編集長を務め、アンリ・カルティエ＝ブレッソンや、ロバート・キャパ等の著名な報道写真家と仕事を共にしたジョン・G・モリス氏の旧蔵書のコレクションです。
１００冊以上の署名本や贈呈本が含まれています。
氏は Get the Picture（邦 訳：２０世紀の瞬間、光文社. 1999年刊）の著者としても知られています

Photojournalism is a particular form of journalism that creates images to tell a news story. It is usually understood to refer to still images which record events of national or international importance. Like a writer, a photojournalist is a reporter, but one who carries a camera. While working, a photojournalist has to make instant decisions, often while exposed to danger such as war or insurgent crowds.

Henri Cartier-Bresson is considered to be the father of modern photojournalism, which had its Golden Age from the early 1930s to the 1950s which was then dominated by the American magazine Life. Cartier-Bresson developed the style of real life reportage that has influenced the generations of photojournalists that followed. War has undoubtedly brought fame to photojournalists, most notably to Robert Capa, who is renowned for his D-Day photographs. Capa covered five wars until he was killed by a landmine in Vietnam in 1954.

However, the central figure in photojournalism is the photo editor, who has the crucial job of choosing the best images taken by the photojournalists for publication in prominent magazines and newspapers. John G. Morris, now aged ninety-three, is the most influential and experienced photo editor in history. Throughout a distinguished photojournalist’s career, which began in 1938 and during which he was most notably picture editor for Life, Morris has worked with the foremost photojournalists in the world, most of whom became his close friends.  His autobiography Get the Picture was published in 1998 to celebrate sixty years as a photojournalist.

During those sixty years and during subsequent years, Morris assembled a remarkable library of books about photojournalism and photojournalists, which is offered here in its entirety. Of the five hundred titles, more than a hundred have ownership inscriptions and more personal inscriptions from some of the famous people with whom he worked. His collection of books is a printed tribute both to photojournalism and to photojournalists. His books include works by and about Henri Cartier-Bresson, Robert Capa, Cornell Capa, Alfred Eisenstaedt, Margaret Bourke-White, David Seymour, Walter Bischof, George Rodger, Hansel Meith, Elliott Erwitt, Eugene Smith, Inge Morah, Larry Burrows, Eve Arnold, Marc Riboud, the twins David and Peter Turnley, Dorothea Lange and many more. Scarcely any notable photojournalist is omitted from Morris’s library.

Scores of the pictures that Morris selected have achieved iconic status.  Magazines such as Life built their huge readerships and reputations largely on the use of photography. Photographers such Henri Cartier-Bresson, Robert Capa, Margaret Bourke-White and W. Eugene Smith became international celebrities. John Morris, above all, was responsible for their fame.

In 1947, the photographic agency Magnum was founded by Robert Capa, David Seymour, Henri Cartier-Bresson and George Rodger.  Magnum’s aim was to transcribe photographically an account of what was going on in the world. Magnum was a photographic co-operative of great diversity which included most of the world’s leading photojournalists. John Morris was Magnum’s first executive editor, and Magnum’s photography and history are well represented in his library.

Morris’s unique private collection of books on photojournalism and photojournalists was essentially a working library for himself, which he used on a daily basis. But the experience with which it has been gathered over many decades, makes the collection a most valuable resource for the study of photojournalism during the last seventy years.

Part 1: English Books

(Item nos.1-500)

Part 2: European Books.

詳細リストは こちら (PDF 75p. 334KB)

John G. Morris: An Interview with the Most Influential and Experienced Photo Editor in History