George Silk
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| Narození | 17. listopadu 1916 Levin |
| Úmrtí | 23. října 2004 (ve věku 87 let) Norwalk |
| Příčina úmrtí | infarkt myokardu |
| Povolání | fotograf, válečný fotograf a fotoreportér |
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George Silk (17. listopadu 1916 Levin Nový Zéland – 23. října 2004, Norwalk, Connecticut, USA) byl americký válečný a sportovní fotograf novozélandského původu, který jako fotograf samouk, otevřel nové technické a estetické možnosti. Pro časopis Life pracoval třicet let.[1][2]
Životopis
Silkova kariéra válečného fotografa začala v roce 1939, kdy byl válečným kameramanem pro australskou vládu, působící na Středním východě, v severní Africe a v Řecku. V pasti u známých Desert Rats v Tobruku v Libyi ho zajaly síly německého polního maršála Erwina Rommela, ale o 10 dní později unikl.
V časopisu Life začal pracovat v roce 1943.
Silk fotografoval mnoho důležitých událostí během druhé světové války. Dokumentoval válku na italské frontě, spojenecké invaze do Francie a Pacifiku. V Nové Guineji prošel Silk 300 kilometrů se spojeneckými silami, což bylo později popsáno v knize Válka v Nové Guineji. V roce 1944 byl s americkými silami v bitvě u Bulge a byl zraněn granátem během přechodu řeky v Německu. Jeho spolupracovník Will Lang junior informoval o bitvě o výběžek a o přechod řeky. Silk pořídil první fotografie Nagasaki v Japonsku poté, co tam 9. srpna 1945 došlo k pádu atomové bomby, a také snímky japonských válečných zločinců čekajících na soud v poválečném Tokiu. V roce 1947 se stal americkým občanem.
Edward Steichen zahrnul jeho fotografie pořízené na Jamajce v roce 1955 do výstavy Lidská rodina v Muzeu moderního umění, která putovala po celém světě a vidělo ji 9 milionů návštěvníků.[3]
Byl čtyřikrát jmenován fotografem roku časopisem National Press Photographers Association.
Silk zemřel ve městě Norwalk v Connecticutu na městnavé srdeční selhání.[4]
Galerie
Plážové sporty pod letní oblohou, Gaza Beach, září 1941
Australský voják George „Dick“ Whittington, je podpírán Papuáncem Raphaelem Oimbarim, poblíž Buny dne 25. prosince 1942. Whittington zemřel v únoru 1943 na následky tyfu.
Australský útok, leden 1943, Papua, Giropa Point
Malé dítě umírající během hladomoru, Čína, 1946
Odkazy
Reference
V tomto článku byl použit překlad textu z článku George Silk na anglické Wikipedii.
- ↑ John Loengard Loengard, John. Life photographers : what they saw. [s.l.]: Little, Brown Dostupné online. ISBN 978-0-8212-2455-7.
- ↑ FOX, Margalit. George Silk, 87, Life Magazine Photographer, Dies. www.nytimes.com. Dostupné online [cit. 2018-09-18]. (anglicky)
- ↑ Steichen, Edward; Steichen, Edward, 1879-1973, (organizátor.); Sandburg, Carl, 1878-1967, (autor předmluvy.); Dorothy Normanová, 1905-1997, (autorka doplňujícího textu.); Lionni, Leo, 1910-1999, (book designer.); Mason, Jerry, (editor.); Stoller, Ezra, (fotograf.). The family of man: the photographic exhibition. [s.l.]: Published for the Museum of Modern Art by Simon and Schuster in collaboration with the Maco Magazine Corporation Dostupné online.
- ↑ FOX, Margalit. George Silk, 87, Life Magazine Photographer, Dies. www.nytimes.com. Dostupné online [cit. 2018-09-19]. (anglicky)
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1943-01-02. PAPUA, GIROPA POINT. AUSTRALIAN MANNED M3 GENERAL STUART TANKS ATTACKING JAPANESE PILLBOXES IN THE FINAL ASSAULT ON BUNA. MEN OF D COMPANY, 2/12TH BATTALION, FIRE ON 25 JAPANESE (NOT SEEN), USING BREN MK 1 MACHINE GUNS AND SMLE NO 1 MKIII* RIFLES, WHO ARE FLEEING FROM A WRECKED PILLBOX 150 YARDS AWAY. THE PILLBOX WAS DESTROYED BY THE GENERAL STUART TANK SHOWN HERE. IN THE FOREGROUND ARE PRIVATE J. SEARLE AND CORPORAL G. G. FLETCHER. THIS PHOTOGRAPH WAS TAKEN DURING THE ACTUAL FIGHTING. Australian War Memorial, copyright expired, public domain. Image 014001.
George Silk's classic picture taken at Buna, New Guinea, on Christmas Day, 1942. An Australian soldier, Private George "Dick" Whittington is aided by a Papuan orderly, Raphael Oimbari. Whittington died in February 1943 from typhus. Silk was a combat photographer for the Australian government when the photo was taken.
Autor: George Silk , Licence: No restrictions
ID number: 009906
Photographer: George Silk Date: September 1941 Place: Gaza Beach
The start of the sprint race at the surf lifesaving carnival.
Rights Info: No known copyright restrictions. This photograph is from the Australian War Memorial's collection www.awm.gov.au
Persistent URL: www.awm.gov.au/collection/009906Autor: Pippa, Licence: CC BY-SA 3.0
George Silk (1916–2004), Levin, New Zealand, Photojournalist
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Autor: George Silk , Licence: CC BY 2.0
Entitled: During the famine, young child dying in the gutter, China [1946] G Silk [RESTORED] I cleaned a few spots, adjusted contrast and darkened tonality for stronger visual impact, and added a sepia tone.
George Silk was a LIFE Magazine staffer, working for them 30 years. He extensively covered many aspects of the second world war, at one point being even captured by the Germans, and then fortunately escaping. He was also the first photographer to document Nagasaki after the atomic bombing. Immediately after the war, he was in China recording the poor social conditions and the lack of resources and its devastating effects on the Chinese populace.
Whether one reads Anderson's Little Match Girl or sees Takahata's anime adaptation of Nosaka's Grave of the Fireflies one cannot help but be thunderstruck with compassion over the plight of impoverished children, and of China it was no different. In the desperate and unforgiving times of the post war period, China was devastated and its streets overflowed with those least able to fend for themselves. Too young to steal food with sustainable reliability and too old and too many to elicit the short supply of compassion of a war numbed society, child orphans were left to scrape a daily existence from whatever they begged or fought for. More often than not, they lost that fight.
This is not a pleasant image, and indeed I was conflicted about even submitting it. However, in the final analysis, painful as it is, it remained an important historic document of the plight that wars bring to people, and the suffering that it engenders. We as a society today cannot help those that have already succumbed to the grinding poverty effects induced by previous wars. However, before we start any new ones, the least that we can do is remember those thousands of starved children, before we in our eager belligerent hubris, inadvertently create more.
An important note about LIFE MAGAZINE:
For those that weren't familiar with the magazine; in its heyday, Life Magazine could be best described as the National Geographic of people and society. From 1936, it offered mostly an intimate and fascinating view, with extensive picture stories or photo essays, into sections of social milieu that Americans could only imagine. Unfortunately, because of the high and rising costs of publishing, it essentially folded in 1972. Sadly, various attempts since then, to bring back this photojournalist's phenomenon (in various forms) met with little success.
All is not lost however; in probably one of the most magnanimous gestures that any corporation can make towards public image history, TIME, Inc., the current owners of the former Life Magazine, has offered up its vast photo archives of over TEN MILLION images to be freely available for non commercial use via GOOGLE's Search engine. Photographs can instantly convey a story in a way that words alone cannot. By releasing these pictures for public access, TIME, Inc., has helped to keep our collective history (as seen through Life Magazine) alive for future generations to appreciate. It is rare indeed to see such corporate generosity.
In order to search the life photo database, simply go to Google Images, and type in your search term, skip a space and append the following exactly as it appears:
source:life