![]() ![]() Taking pictures of local events and happenings he took his photos to editors of the newspapers and magazines that liked his photos, encouraged him and told him the best way to get assignments was to come-up with ideas for picture stories. It would be away to travel, meet interesting people and see the world. George realized that's what he wanted to be, a professional photographer. He became known as the kid with a camera. The local Church's pastors had him take their photos. ![]() As a teenager he realized his pictures were a way of making money as friends and their families paid him to take their pictures. His second camera was the folding camera that he always carried to school taking pictures of people and interesting places wherever he went. His life’s dream all started with his first box camera, then the folding camera, and his favorite cameras the Rolleiflex and Nikon Cameras. Fascinated by the magic of the camera, George quickly mastered how to load film, click the camera shutter, develop the film in their home, and printing of the films negatives into the magical photos he took. On his sixth birthday his brother Willie bought him a box camera. ![]() George Barris was born Jat 24 Delancey Street, Manhattan lower east side, New York City, to Joseph and Eva Barris who were emigrants from Romania. ![]()
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