Chapter One With Greg Grasso

Chris Pan Launois talks about his father John Launois and the part he played as one of the most celebrated photojournalist on modern times. ____________________ Before television, the great picture magazines captured world events for millions of readers. They sent correspondents and photojournalists to the ends of the earth to record history in the making. Among this elite was the photographer, John Launois. During the 1960s and 1970s, the final decades of the “golden age of photojournalism,” John Launois blossomed as one of the most resourceful, inventive, prolific, highly paid, and widely traveled photojournalists at work during that period.