Background
George Silk was born on November 17, 1916, in Levin, New Zealand.
George Silk was born on November 17, 1916, in Levin, New Zealand.
A freelance photographer since 1972, George Silk was a staff photographer for Life magazine from 1943 to 1972. Since 1939 his photographic essays have also appeared in Audubon, Smithsonian, Signature, Gourmet, Yachting, and Sail, among others.
George Silk covered the war in the Middle East and in the Pacific from 1939 to 1943 as a civilian photographer for the Australian Ministry of Information and previously worked as a salesman in a photo store in Auckland, New Zealand (1934-1939), and as a cowhand on a New Zealand ranch (1932-1934).
George Silk died in Norwalk, Connecticut due to congestive heart failure.
An Australian soldier, Private George "Dick" Whittington, is aided by Papuan orderly Raphael Oimbari, near Buna on 25 December 1942. Whittington died in February 1943 from the effects of bush typhus.
United States track athletes taking hurdles at the men’s 1960 United States Olympic trials for track and field
1960Ingemar Johansson looking on during the title bout against Patterson
During the famine young child dying in the gutter, China
1946Dr. Maurice H.F. Wilkins Nobel prize winner with a model of DNA molecule for which he received a prize
Beach sports under summer skies, Gaza Beach
1941Australian assault on pillbox
1943The sailboat Nefertiti competing in America’s Cup trials
Children in Halloween costumes running together
George Silk belongs to the NPPA (since I960); Cedar Point Yacht Club of Westport, Connecticut (since 1957); the Westport Gourmet Society (since 1964), and ASMP (since 1948).