Born in the North of France in 1926, Jean Marquis arrived in Paris in 1949. He held various jobs before meeting Robert Capa, who encouraged him to become a photojournalist. At first a member of Magnum from 1953 to 1957, he continued his career independently, contributing...

12.04.2013[ read full story ]

Photographers working for the U.S. government's Farm Security Administration (FSA) and later the Office of War Information (OWI) between 1939 and 1944 made approximately 1,600 color photographs that depict life in the United States, including Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands...

21.03.2013[ read full story ]

In 1944, I was in France when I got a coded message from Life magazine that spelled out in bright letters to me: MacArthur was returning to the Philippines. By the time I got to Leyte, though, the landing was over and a picture of MacArthur coming ashore there had already be...

17.01.2013[ read full story ]

I never had much to do with the Kennedys. I was out of the country most of the time when John Kennedy was Senator and then President. The day he was shot, I had been out of New York, and when I got back late in the day, I found that our entire staff, both writers and photographers, ha...

06.12.2012[ read full story ]

The sculptor Henry Moore was in his 80s in 1983. At four o'clock I was at his estate outside London, it started to snow. It was getting dark. I thought the snow might pile up gently over the night. I said to Todd Brewster, a writer who was with me, “Let's come back at dawn.” It was ...

29.11.2012[ read full story ]

There's a picture I made of General Douglas MacArthur in his plane, The Bataan, on a flight he was making to watch the dropping of U.S. paratroopers near Pyongyang late in the Korean War. There was only a handful of correspondents and photographers aboard, nested back at th...

22.11.2012[ read full story ]

When I was working in Paris, I had a beautiful leather camera case made. It looked like a diplomat’s briefcase. With a necktie on, and if my suit fit, I could walk right into places where they threw the other bums out. I photographed 11 kings. I got the kings of Norway, Sweden and B...

07.11.2012[ read full story ]

In a painting no one complains that the subject is posed, but everybody complains about what looks posed in a photograph. Except, I’ve found that if I go very close in to the face, then the posed expression no longer exists. The face becomes a landscape of the lakes of the eyes and the ...

01.11.2012[ read full story ]

There is no assurance that when people say no to a picture, that they really mean no. But there are people who just hate to sit in front of a camera. I'm one of them. William Faulkner is another. He proved to be one of the best and dearest subjects I ever had. Still, it was diffi...

18.10.2012[ read full story ]

At the 1960 Democratic Convention, where everybody was shooting pictures like crazy, I was doing a story on Bobby Kennedy. The morning after Jack was nominated, we went up to his room. The brothers talked very quietly, and Jack told Bobby he wasn’t going to choose Walter Reuther for...

11.10.2012[ read full story ]