1999 Infinity Award: Writing

Get the Picture, published by Random House, is John Morris’s insightful account of a half century of photojournalism. Over the years, Morris has commissioned, edited, and published the photographs that have helped define our sense of recent history, and he has worked closely with some of the century’s great photographers including Robert Capa, Henri Cartier-Bresson and W. Eugene Smith. Get the Picture ranges from Capa’s heroism on D-Day to the ethical problems that arose for photographers and their editors on the night that Princess Diana died.