LIFE’s photographers were as celebrated for their photojournalistic chops as for the imaginative methods they devised for illustrating what might otherwise have been mundane or utterly straightforward stories…
To shoot hammer thrower Ed Bagdonis during the U.S. Olympic trials in Squaw Valley, Calif., in 1960, George Silk placed a photo-finish camera next to the throwing platform. The athlete’s circular motion gave him the appearance of having four arms and four legs.
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