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Independent Picture Service, 1964 Tirée dans un labo new-yorkais Épreuve argentique de lecture d'époque, 241x166 mm John at Independent Picture Service (IPS), 1964 Printed at a NYC lab Vintage gelatin silver single-weight print, 241x166 mm Cornell Capa took this portrait in front of the huge "contact sheet" that greeted visitors to my Independent Picture Service at 15 West 47th Street, two floors below Magnum. FREELANCE "Freelance" often means either unemployed or volunteer (working for free). I have earned both those designations, but have fortunately largely worked on salary, often plus expenses, for publishers such as Time Inc., Curtis Publishing and The New York Times. As Magnum's Executive Editor, I also worked on salary. Magnum photographers were freelancers, for richer or for poorer. By 1961, Magnum and I had grown weary of each other. At a stormy August meeting in Cornell Capa's New York apartment the Members voted to terminate me. We worked out a friendly contract: I would continue editing the monthly Magnum News Service but could also work freelance. This led to my raising capital and founding, in 1963, a company called Independent Picture Service (IPS). Its primary aim was to develop markets for any talented photojournalists, not just Magnum's. I opened a "Picture Workshop" two floors below Magnum and began offering pictures and picture stories to newspapers in a publication called IPS Contact Sheet. Many talented freelancers came to show me their work. I also picked up articles from journalists like Edgar Snow and Jean Daniel IPS Contact Sheet was what the French call a succès d'estime, newspapers loved our picture stories but failed to buy. After one year of operations, IPS was broke. The Washington Post came to my rescue.