The author reveals the stories behind dozens of famous images, offers an intimate portrait of the men and women who took them and tells countless adventurous anecdotes of his encounters with celebrities such as Alfred Hitchcock, General Patton, Marlene Dietrich, Ernest Hemingway, Lee Miller and Andrei Sakharov: the passionate account of a full life, from one of the leading voices of a journalism in the name of truth. "I am a journalist, but not a reporter nor a photographer. I am a photo editor. I have worked with photographers for more than fifty years. Photographers are the most adventurous of journalists: the photographer must be where the action is, whatever the danger. No post-production can save him. The editor chooses among his pictures to tell the facts as they were; right or wrong, the picture has the last word."