dinsdag, oktober 26, 2004
Former Life photographer George Silk dead at 87
George Silk, a photojournalist who spent 30 years with Life magazine, earning fame for coverage of World War II and later pioneering the use of the strip camera for depicting athletes in motion, has died, three weeks short of his 88th birthday.
Silk, born in New Zealand on Nov. 17, 1916, joined the Life photo staff in 1943 and spent the next two years covering the war on the Italian front, the Allied invasions of France and the Pacific. He shot the first pictures of the atom-bombed city of Nagasaki and Japanese war criminals awaiting trial in postwar Tokyo.
As a member of the Life staff, Silk shared photo credits with other notable photojournalists including Carl Mydans, who died in August at age 97, Larry Burrows and others.
# posted by Jan-Edward : 08:35
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