George Silk - Life Photographer

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George Silk was a photojournalist that spent 30 years with Life magazine. He passed away Saturday at age 87.

George shot the first pictures of atom-bombed Nagasaki and Japanese war criminals awaiting trial in postwar Tokyo.

He developed the strip camera that exposed film as it rolled past an aperature and became a leading sports photographer. He experimented with mounting cameras on skis, surfboards, etc.

Do a Google or Yahoo search on George Silk Photographer and you will get several links to his work.

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