Jackie and the Kennedys, Wedding day in Newport
John G. Morris: "Toni Frissell, whose work appeared mostly in Vogue, was the family photographer at the wedding of Jack Kennedy and Jacqueline Bouvier – "Jackie." She gave me prints for the Magnum story, which I sold to the Ladies’ Home Journal for $100,000. This is perhaps the most rare, as it shows the three Kennedy daughters, Patricia, Eunice and Jean with the three then surviving sons, Bobby, Ted and Jack. The eldest son, Joseph P. Jr., had died as a pilot in World War II" Photograph: Toni Frissell/Collection of John G Morris
Gypsy Wedding, Slovakia 1947
John G. Morris: "This is my favorite of all Robert Capa’s pictures. He gave me the print as a kind of apology for not photographing a Russian family when he went there with John Steinbeck in 1947. Knowing that I needed a family from behind the “Iron Curtain” for the Ladies’ Home Journal “People are People” series, he stopped to shoot a Slovakian family on his way back to Paris and New York. He accidentally attended a gypsy wedding, which he insisted had gone on for three days–this is the only photo I ever saw of it. I love it" Photograph: Estate of Robert Capa/Magnum/Collection of John G Morris
Buckingham Palace Being Cleaned, late 1960’s
"Guess what’s behind the Guardsmen? Buckingham Palace! A photo by Neil Libbert, who had been working for London newspapers and became my favorite London stringer for the New York Times" Photograph: Neil Libbert/Collection of John G Morris
Marilyn, 1960
John G. Morris: "Bob Willoughby worked for years in Hollywood before moving to France. The only time I met Marilyn Monroe was at a press conference in her suite at New York's St. Regis when she was making The Seven Year Itch. I fixed her a drink" Photograph: Bob Willoughby/Collection of John G Morris
Capa at Work, 1944
John G. Morris: "I snapped this photo of Robert Capa as he shot the surrender of German officers, somewhere in Normandy in August 1944. This print is unique" Photograph: Collection of John G Morris
Liberation, Marseilles, 1944
John G. Morris: "I was fortunate to meet the Polish born photographer Julia Pirotte when she had a show in Arles. She had taken refuge in Marseille in World War II, joining the resistance" Photograph: Julia Pirotte/Collection of John G Morris
Military Appraisal at Moscow Trolley Stop, 1954 (Life Cover)
John G. Morris: "This is the photo I recommended to Managing Editor Ed Thompson of Life when he asked me, 'What do you see for a cover?' In December I came back from Paris with hundreds of prints of the USSR, I remember the customs officer asking me how much they were worth (in 1954) I replied 'that’s what I am here to find out'" Photograph: Henri Cartier-Bresson/Collection of John G Morris
South American Children, c.1962
John G. Morris: "I came to know and admire the work of Washington photographer Paul Conklin when I was editor of IPS Contact Sheet. I simply love this photo" Photograph: Paul Conklin/Collection of John G Morris
Workers Alliance of America, 1936
This photo of a California father and son has much of the same strength as Dorothea Lange's Migrant Mother and Child, which was taken about the same time. I knew the several leading members of the California school, not a school but a common approach to humanity" Photograph: Hansel Mieth/Collection of John G Morris
Capa Striking a Pose for Christian Dior, Paris, 1952
John G. Morris: "Life photographer Dmitri Kessel, who one of my Life buddies from New York (we had even fished together on Saranac Lake), gave me this delightful photo of Bob Capa showing a model how to pose, in the delightful days of postwar Paris. Capa showed model Suzy Parker how to take pictures, and for a while she was listed as a Magnum photographer" Photograph: Dmitri Kessel/Collection of John G Morris
Albert Einstein, Life assignment, 1940 Photograph: Hansel Mieth/Collection of John G Morris
