{"id":5354317,"date":"2019-10-18T18:39:58","date_gmt":"2019-10-18T18:39:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.life.com\/?post_type=photographer&#038;p=5354317"},"modified":"2019-10-18T18:39:58","modified_gmt":"2019-10-18T18:39:58","slug":"george-lacks","status":"publish","type":"photographer","link":"https:\/\/www.life.com\/photographer\/george-lacks\/","title":{"rendered":"George Lacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote id=\"single-block_5da085e45fb64\" class=\"single-image \">\n    <section>\n                        <img decoding=\"async\" data=\"block-image\" data-id=5355830 desc=\"Asset ID: 1220716. \" caption=\"Photographer George Lacks in official war correspondents uniform. (Photo by Bill O&#039;meara\/The LIFE Picture Collection &copy; Meredith Corporation)\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.life.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/mx\/AssetCache\/life-merlinone-net-MX-\/1220716\/obj\/1220716.jpg\" alt=\"Photographer George Lacks in official war correspondents uniform. (Photo by Bill O&#039;meara\/The LIFE Picture Collection &copy; Meredith Corporation)\" \/>\n                <div class=\"image-info\">\n            <p class=\"image-caption\"><\/p>\n            <p class=\"image-caption\">Photographer George Lacks in official war correspondents uniform. (Photo by Bill O&#8217;meara\/The LIFE Picture Collection \u00a9 Meredith Corporation)<\/p>\n        <\/div>\n    <\/section>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">George Lacks (1910-1960) spent much of his career in Shanghai, which made sense because he had lived there for years before he joined LIFE and had even been an official photographer for the Chinese government. During a stint in LIFE&#8217;S Los Angeles bureau, he photographed a young lawyer in Whittier who was considered a political up-and-comer, as well as a story on the city&#8217;s &#8220;Divorce Mill.&#8221; The rate of 80 breakups a day was then considered staggering. Once, to illustrate the fast clip of the court. Lacks took a portrait of 24 participants and the brief testimony they gave to end their short marriages.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2014<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Adapted from <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Great-LIFE-Photographers-Editors\/dp\/0316097934\/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1EH15RRHPZHFO&amp;keywords=the+great+life+photographers&amp;qid=1570115481&amp;s=gateway&amp;sprefix=the+great+life+photogr%2Caps%2C142&amp;sr=8-1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Great LIFE Photographers<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n<blockquote id=\"double-block_5da086165fb65\" class=\"double-image aligncenter\">\n    <section>\n                        <img decoding=\"async\" data=\"block-image\" data-id=5355827 desc=\"\" caption=\"Richard Nixon standing in door to his law office.  (Photo by George Lacks\/The LIFE Images Collection &copy; Meredith Corporation)\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/static.life.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/18183609\/GettyImages-50503830-e1571423788712-796x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Richard Nixon standing in door to his law office. (Photo by George Lacks\/The LIFE Images Collection &copy; Meredith Corporation)\" \/>\n                <div class=\"image-info\">\n            <p class=\"image-caption\"><\/p>\n            <p class=\"image-caption\">Richard Nixon standing in door to his law office.  (Photo by George Lacks\/The LIFE Images Collection \u00a9 Meredith Corporation)<\/p>\n        <\/div>\n    <\/section>\n    <section>\n                        <img decoding=\"async\" data=\"block-image\" data-id=5355828 desc=\"\" caption=\"Communist soldiers marching through gates of Great Wall, 1946.  (Photo by George Lacks\/The LIFE Picture Collection &copy; Meredith Corporation)\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/static.life.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/18183635\/GettyImages-50865766-e1571423820117-815x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Communist soldiers marching through gates of Great Wall, 1946. (Photo by George Lacks\/The LIFE Picture Collection &copy; Meredith Corporation)\" \/>\n                <div class=\"image-info\">\n            <p class=\"image-caption\"><\/p>\n            <p class=\"image-caption\">Communist soldiers marching through gates of Great Wall, 1946.  (Photo by George Lacks\/The LIFE Picture Collection \u00a9 Meredith Corporation)<\/p>\n        <\/div>\n    <\/section>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<blockquote id=\"single-block_5da086185fb66\" class=\"single-image \">\n    <section>\n                        <img decoding=\"async\" data=\"block-image\" data-id=5355834 desc=\"\" caption=\"American sailors on shore leave sit in a pedicab while their buddy takes their picture, Shanghai, China, December 1945. (Photo by George Lacks\/The LIFE Picture Collection &copy; Meredith Corporation)\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/static.life.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/18183918\/GettyImages-50627775-e1571423978421-1024x842.jpg\" alt=\"American sailors on shore leave sit in a pedicab while their buddy takes their picture, Shanghai, China, December 1945. (Photo by George Lacks\/The LIFE Picture Collection &copy; Meredith Corporation)\" \/>\n                <div class=\"image-info\">\n            <p class=\"image-caption\"><\/p>\n            <p class=\"image-caption\">American sailors on shore leave sit in a pedicab while their buddy takes their picture, Shanghai, China, December 1945. (Photo by George Lacks\/The LIFE Picture Collection \u00a9 Meredith Corporation)<\/p>\n        <\/div>\n    <\/section>\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>George Lacks (1910-1960) spent much of his career in Shanghai, which made sense because he had lived there for years before he joined LIFE and had even been an official photographer for the Chinese government. 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