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30 April 2011, last updated at 08: 41 GMT John G Morris is a name that means little for most of you, is likely to press photographers and picture editors it a name most recognize and treasures.

Morris was the editor of the photographer Robert Capa on d day and went on to help the appearance of the postwar image magazine. He was also the first executive editor of Magnum Photos and worked on the Washington Post and the New York Times, Paris 1983 he worked as a correspondent and editor for national geographic.

In the course of his career he has built up a collection of original prints, which are now sold at auction to date 30 April, in Paris. The images are personal gifts of the artists as well as creative work prints from his visual diary.

The prints will be auctioned include images of Henri Cartier-Bresson, Robert Capa, Robert Frank, and Dorothea Lange, each a historical document. On the back of some of the prints you will find the stamps of the photographer or image agency; each brand an own story to tell.

Here you will find a selection of them on sale.

Military assessment on a Moskau trolley stop, 1954

Morris:

"This is the photo I, editor in Chief Ed Thompson of life, recommended if he asked me: 'What you see for a cover?'"

"In December I came back from Paris with hundreds of prints of the USSR." I remember on the Customs officers they value asked me how much (in 1954); "I replied"that is what I am here to find out,"."

Robert Capa, Gypsy wedding, Slovakia 1947 in New York in the same year printed

Morris:

"This is my favorite all Robert Capa's pictures." He gave me the pressure as a sort of apology for not photographing a Russian family, when he went there with John Steinbeck, 1947.

"Knowing people are that I needed a family from behind the iron curtain for ladies' Home Journal people series, he stopped to shoot a Slovak family on his way back to Paris and New York." He accidentally a "Gypsy" wedding, which he insisted on for three days had been visited - this is the only photo I always saw. "I love it."

Live at the Saratoga race track, summer 1939 by Alfred Eisenstaedt

Morris:

"When I first became a life researcher/reporter in the summer of 1939, my first outside of the city was assignment employees work with life photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt;" some of Prima Donna.

"Years later looking through his contact sheets to see if he made a photo of me, which I use for my autobiography get that could image, was all I could find the photo of our two shadows as we saw on the Saratoga race track."

Robert Capa at work, 1944

Morris:

"I drove this photo of Robert Capa, as he shot the surrender of the German officers, somewhere in Normandy in August 1944."

"I'm not sure there is a different picture of Robert Capa at work, other than the famous picture post photograph that shows him with the camera."

D day photographers in Grosvenor Square, 1944

Morris:

"This photo of life accredited photographers, shortly before d day 1944 many times the pressure was conducted but I back 1944 to New York in the late fall and had to pass so it get taken by the censorship in Grosvenor Square."

From left to right, back row: Landry, Rodger, Scherschel, CAPA. From left to right front row: Morse, Morris, Scherman.

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