A Brief Overview of Strock's Work Outside WWII: Sports, and Others
George Strock was a photographer during WWII, however, this doesn't mean he didn't photograph anything but high-stress battles. Strock was a LIFE Magazine staff photographer from 1940 to 1944 (according to the NY Times), before that working for the Los Angeles Times taking photos for the sports and crime sections.
In fact, if one were to search for it, they could find a number of different photos that Strock took during his career. For example, this photo of legendary Major League Baeball pitcher Satchel Paige. Strock took photos of the sports icon before he went broke into the league. According to a TIME article by Eliza Berman about a profile of Paige which was published in TIME Magazine in 1941, the player used to play for a variety of teams for short periods of time in order to showcase his skills before making it to the majors.
Strock was the main photographer of that profile. The photo underneath this paragraph is one that Strock took of Paige while he was playing for the New York Black Yankees, who were a part of the Negro Leagues at the time.
Another example of Strock's photo coverage is sports can be seen through this photo which comes from the Los Angeles Times, covering a match between wrestlers Baptiste Paul and Gus Sonnenburg. The image was published in the LA Times on May 20, 1937.
The photo below was taken when Strock was covering a charity baseball game for a hospital at Wrigley Field (not the one in Chicago, but rather one that stood in Los Angeles until the 1960s). The picture showcases a crowd of over 30,000 people filled into the stadium. When I first saw the photo I thought it was the same stadium that the Chicago Cubs play in, but I wasn't correct.
The photo below taken by Strock is of Dr. Hubert L. Eaton among some rather intriguing but odd paintings and pictures of Jesus. Getty Images says that Eaton created Forest Lawn Memorial Parks & Mortuaries. This personally is not an organization I have heard of before, but this photo adds another intriguing example of the kind of work Strock performed during his career. It is a very unique photo, that is for sure. Take a look:
Now, these are only a few examples of the work that Strock was able to do with his camera, however, I feel that it gives at the least an adequate example of how well traversed Strock was in the world of images. Not only was someone who wasn't afraid of the dangers he would face alongside soldiers, but he was also a professional photographer that had a great deal of talent he was able to utilize in others while taking photos for LIFE Magazine and the Los Angeles Times.
In fact, if one were to search for it, they could find a number of different photos that Strock took during his career. For example, this photo of legendary Major League Baeball pitcher Satchel Paige. Strock took photos of the sports icon before he went broke into the league. According to a TIME article by Eliza Berman about a profile of Paige which was published in TIME Magazine in 1941, the player used to play for a variety of teams for short periods of time in order to showcase his skills before making it to the majors.
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| Satchel Paige smokes a cigarette in Harlem. George Strock, The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images |
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| Satchel Paige playing for the New York Black Yankees. George Strock, The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images |
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| The wrestling match Strock covered in 1937. George Strock, Los Angeles Times |
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| Wrigley Field in Los Angeles, during a baseball game. George Strock, Los Angeles Times |
During my own research, I was unable to find photos of crime scenes that Strock took while at the LA Times, but I was able to pull up a few photos that Strock captured during his career (the couple listed in this post are examples that I personally found interesting). Satchel Paige was not the only notable individual that Strock covered, as the photo shown below displays the head of the historically prominent Pan-Am Airlines, Juan Trippe taken from his office in New York City in 1941. From my own experience, I remember Trippe being portrayed by Alec Baldwin in Martin Scorsese's The Aviator which was about Howard Hughes' life and endeavors. But here he is, alive and well in real life history, captured by Strock himself.
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| Founder and head of Pan-Am Airlines Juan Trippe. George Strock, The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images |
The photo below taken by Strock is of Dr. Hubert L. Eaton among some rather intriguing but odd paintings and pictures of Jesus. Getty Images says that Eaton created Forest Lawn Memorial Parks & Mortuaries. This personally is not an organization I have heard of before, but this photo adds another intriguing example of the kind of work Strock performed during his career. It is a very unique photo, that is for sure. Take a look:
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| Hubert L. Eaton with different pieces of art depicting Jesus. George Strock, The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images |
Post Bibliography:
-http://time.com/3941360/satchel-paige/
-https://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/03/28/a-photo-that-was-hard-to-get-published-but-even-harder-to-get/?_r=0
-http://framework.latimes.com/2014/04/09/wrestling-melee-at-the-olympic/
-http://framework.latimes.com/2011/05/04/wrigley-field-overflow-crowd/
-https://www.gettyimages.com/license/114148588
-https://www.gettyimages.com/license/81777426
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