MORTON BEEBE

Morton Beebe is a third generation San Franciscan, born in Oakland and a graduate of the UC Berkeley Haas School of Business. After college, he attended Naval Flight School in Pensacola Florida with the intention of becoming a Navy pilot. However, through some interesting twists of fate, he ended up as a Public Information Officer in Antarctica during "Operation Deep Freeze" in 1957-58... Morton has covered the world, combining advertising assignments for his corporate clients - including Minolta, Nikon, Bank of America, Chevron, and American Airlines - with editorial assignments for Travel & Leisure , Geo , Ski and National Geographic , among others... During the next two decades, Morton worked as a photographer and film producer, based in San Francisco, working on such films as The Graduate and Petulia . He was also a pioneer in the stock photography business, helping to establish and successfully grow The Image Bank, the first modern stock agency.