About The Artist:
George Silk
George Silk was a New Zealand-born Australian photojournalist. He served as a photojournalist for Life for 30 years. Silk was born in the New Zealand town of Levin, New Zealand, the fourth child of Arthur Silk and Emma Constance Naylor. He left school at the age of 14 and worked in camera shop at 16. His career as a war photographer began in 1939, when he was a combat cameraman for the Australian government, covering action in the Middle East,...
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About The Medium:
Photograph
An image created by light falling on a photosensitive surface, usually photographic film or an electronic image sensor, such as a CCD or a CMOS chip. Most photographs are created using a camera, which uses a lens to focus the scene's visible wavelengths of light into a reproduction of what the human eye would see.