By Ben Cosgrove
In 1993, John Loengard asked George Silk—a New Zealander who had been a staff photographer for LIFE from 1943 until the magazine stopped publishing as a weekly in 1972—if, in his long career, Silk had been “willing to pose pictures.” Silk’s reply is worth setting down here in full:
[Buy the book, LIFE Photographers: What They Saw (Bulfinch Press, 1998)]
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