John G. Morris, photographer and artistic director of the most prestigious magazines, has been a key figure in the history of photojournalism. He spoke about this life in a large book of 375 pages published in January 1999 with Martinière Publishing. Today, at 94, he has decided to sell some of his photographs and particularly his personal collection. An important sale if we think of all the photographers that he was close to during his long career.

This auction, organized by the Maison de Ventes Volontaires Binoche et Giquello, featuring Serge Plantureux as an expert, will take place in the Drouot Montaigne Salon, on Saturday April 30th at 3:15 PM.

The auction will gather 235 lots that can be discovered through the online catalog on the auction sale house’s website or in the beautifully printed catalog (€ 30) that will certainly become a “collector’s item”. We will discover around twenty prints signed by the photographer John G. Morris. The rest, prints offered by numerous friend photographers: Henri Cartier-Bresson, David Seymour, Dorothea Lange, George Rodger, Eugene Smith, Robert Capa, Elliott Erwitt, Frank Horvat, Dorothea Lange, Willy Ronis, René Burri, Otto Hagel et Hansel Mieth, Marc Riboud, Lisa Larsen, Alfred Eisenstaedt, Philip Jones Griffiths …and many more photographers granted with “awards”.
All of these prints are donations on which we can find in most cases on the backs the dedication from John G. Morris.

Bernard Perrine
Bernard.Perrine1@orange.fr

Auction of the John G.Morris Collection

Saturday 30 April, 3:15 PM
Public exhibition
Thursday 28 and Friday 29 11AM – 6 PM
Saturday 30 April 10 AM – 1 PM

Drouot Montaigne
15 Avenue Montaigne
75008 Paris

Auctioneer Curator
Alexandre Giquello

Maison de Ventes Binoche et Giquello
5 rue de la Boétie
75008 Paris
+33 (0)1 47 42 78 01
jcbinoche@wanadoo.fr

Information
Ceros, Serge Plantureux
+33 (0)1 53 29 92 94
auction@photoceros.com