{"id":5354424,"date":"2019-10-11T15:39:36","date_gmt":"2019-10-11T15:39:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.life.com\/?post_type=photographer&#038;p=5354424"},"modified":"2019-10-22T20:09:29","modified_gmt":"2019-10-22T20:09:29","slug":"jack-wilkes","status":"publish","type":"photographer","link":"https:\/\/www.life.com\/photographer\/jack-wilkes\/","title":{"rendered":"Jack Wilkes"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote id=\"single-block_5da09b4ed9762\" class=\"single-image \">\n    <section>\n                        <img decoding=\"async\" data=\"block-image\" data-id=5354428 desc=\" \" caption=\"Jack Wilkes with his camera in China. (Photo by Jack Wilkes\/The LIFE Picture Collection &copy; Meredith Corporation)\n\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/static.life.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/11152927\/1217884-e1570807948775-822x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Jack Wilkes with his camera in China. (Photo by Jack Wilkes\/The LIFE Picture Collection &copy; Meredith Corporation)\" \/>\n                <div class=\"image-info\">\n            <p class=\"image-caption\"><\/p>\n            <p class=\"image-caption\">Jack Wilkes with his camera in China. (Photo by Jack Wilkes\/The LIFE Picture Collection \u00a9 Meredith Corporation)\n<\/p>\n        <\/div>\n    <\/section>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A disabled Twentieth Century Fox cameraman named Clarence Albert Bach ran a photography high school near Los Angeles called Fremont, which produced several LIFE photographers, including <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.life.com\/photographer\/george-strock\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">George Strock<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.life.com\/photographer\/john-florea\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">John Florea<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.life.com\/photographer\/bob-landry\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bob Landry<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Jack Wilkes (born 1907), who had arrived in the United States from his native Wales when he was just a child, was among that select group. Like so many of his era, Wilkes covered WWII for LIFE, and saw much fighting in China as he roamed with his frequent collaborator, writer Theodore H. White.<\/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<blockquote id=\"single-block_5da09b5fd9764\" class=\"single-image \">\n    <section>\n                        <img decoding=\"async\" data=\"block-image\" data-id=5354437 desc=\"Asset ID: 13051577. \" caption=\"A Chinese infantryman. (Photo by Jack Wilkes\/The LIFE Picture Collection &copy; Meredith Corporation)\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/static.life.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/11153729\/Wilkes_B_IC3-e1570808248748-831x1024.jpg\" alt=\"A Chinese infantryman. (Photo by Jack Wilkes\/The LIFE Picture Collection &copy; Meredith Corporation)\" \/>\n                <div class=\"image-info\">\n            <p class=\"image-caption\"><\/p>\n            <p class=\"image-caption\">A Chinese infantryman. (Photo by Jack Wilkes\/The LIFE Picture Collection \u00a9 Meredith Corporation)<\/p>\n        <\/div>\n    <\/section>\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A disabled Twentieth Century Fox cameraman named Clarence Albert Bach ran a photography high school near Los Angeles called Fremont, which produced several LIFE photographers, including George Strock, John Florea and Bob Landry. 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