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John G. Morris

Journalist, correspondent for LIFE and picture editor

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The picture editor is the voyeurs’ voyeur, the person who sees what the photographers themselves have seen but in the bloodless realm of contact sheet… and now pixels on the screen. Picture editors find the representative picture, the image, that will be seen by others perhaps around the world. They are unwitting (or witting, as the case may be) tastemakers, the unappointed guardians of morality, the talent brokers, the accomplices to celebrity. Most important – or disturbing – they are the fixers of ‘reality’ and of 'history.'

John G. Morris

Get the Picture : A Personal History of Photojournalism by John G. Morris

ISBN: 0226539148 This book is available from Amazon

Each day as the earth revolves toward sunrise members of a select human species awaken to observe the world with three eyes instead of two. They are the press photographers of the world, men and women who write the visual biography of man on earth.

John G. Morris

From Howard Chapnick's book "Truth Needs No Ally"

Truth Needs No Ally : Inside Photojournalism by Howard Chapnick

ISBN: 0826209556 This book is available from Amazon

He [Brassai] times his long exposures by smoking cigarettes – when his smoke was out, he closed the shutter.

John G. Morris

Get the Picture : A Personal History of Photojournalism by John G. Morris

ISBN: 0226539148 Page: 90 This book is available from Amazon

When I look at a picture all I want to know is what the picture wants to tell me, its message: the truth comes before beauty.

John G. Morris

From the book: Maledetti Fotografi Inspiring interviews with the best international photographers

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