George Silk Net Worth is
$850,000
George Silk Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
George Silk (17 November 1916 – 23 October 2004) was born in New Zealand, and served as a photojournalist for Life for 30 years.Silk's career as a war photographer began in 1939, when he was a combat cameraman for the Australian government, covering action in the Middle East, North Africa and Greece. Trapped with the famed Desert Rats at Tobruk in Libya, he was captured by German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel's forces but escaped 10 days later.He began working for Life magazine in 1943.He photographed many events from World War II. He covered the war on the Italian front, the Allied invasions of France and the Pacific. In New Guinea, Silk walked 300 miles with Allied forces, an ordeal later described in the book War in New Guinea. He was with U.S. forces in the Battle of the Bulge in 1944 and was wounded by a grenade during a river crossing in Germany. His co-worker Will Lang Jr. reported on the Battle of the Bulge and the river crossing. He shot the first pictures of Nagasaki, Japan, after the atomic bomb was dropped, as well as Japanese war criminals awaiting trial in postwar Tokyo. He became a U.S. citizen in 1947.In December 1972, Silk was in Nepal, shooting an assignment on Himalayan game parks, when he received news that the magazine had folded. According to the 1977 book That Was the Life, he replied by saying, "Your message . . . badly garbled. Please send one-half million dollars additional expenses." He was named magazine photographer of the year four times by the National Press Photographers Association.
| Date Of Birth | November 17, 1916 |
| Died | 2004-10-23 |
| Place Of Birth | Levin, New Zealand |
| Star Sign | Scorpio |
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| 1 | His career as a war photographer began in 1939 as a combat cameraman for the Australian government, covering action in the Middle East, North Africa and Greece. Trapped with the famed Desert Rats at Tobruk in Libya, he was captured by German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel's forces but escaped 10 days later. In New Guinea, he walked 300 miles with Australian forces, an ordeal later described in a book, "War in New Guinea." He was with American forces in the Battle of the Bulge in 1944 and was wounded by a grenade during a river crossing in Germany. |
| 2 | Photojournalist who spent 30 years with Life magazine, earning fame for his coverage of World War II and later pioneering the use of a special camera for depicting athletes in motion. |
| 3 | Joined Life's photo staff in 1943 and spent 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. |
| 4 | Was a photographer for Life Magazine. |
| 5 | Became a US Citizen in 1947. |
