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Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima”: The Most Reproduced and Parodied Photo in History?
U.S. Naval Institute ^ | 2/23/13 | U.S. Naval Institute

Posted on 02/23/2013 2:41:30 PM PST by Saint X

Photographer Joe Rosenthal admitted that when he took a shot of five Marines and one Navy corpsman raising the U.S. flag on Iwo Jima’s Mt. Suribachi on 23 February 1945, he had no idea that he had captured something extraordinary. He was setting up for a different shot when he spotted the group of men planting the flag and quickly took a snap without even looking through the viewfinder. The chance photo would become iconic overnight and go on to win the Pulitzer Prize.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News
KEYWORDS: flag; iwojima; marines
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This is great collection of tributes to the original photo.
1 posted on 02/23/2013 2:41:38 PM PST by Saint X
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2 posted on 02/23/2013 2:50:35 PM PST by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both)
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To: Saint X

Pretty sure it was 68 years ago. Way to go Naval Institute.


3 posted on 02/23/2013 2:55:54 PM PST by mortal19440
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I have this album......as part of my Funkadelic/Parliament collection of LPs.
4 posted on 02/23/2013 3:00:56 PM PST by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both)
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I took a half page 50th anniversary picture of the flag raising from the cover of the Chronicle and sent it to Rosenthal’s SF address in the phone book, and darned if I didn’t get it back a couple of months later autographed.


5 posted on 02/23/2013 3:02:43 PM PST by skeeter
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The article doesn’t actually say it was 67 years ago...


6 posted on 02/23/2013 3:04:53 PM PST by stormer
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Original Flag Raising

7 posted on 02/23/2013 3:30:43 PM PST by DocRock (All they that TAKE the sword shall perish with the sword. Matthew 26:52 Gun grabbers beware.)
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The Most Reproduced and Parodied Photo in History?

If restricted to the photo category, it's certainly up there... the V-day sailor-nurse kiss in Times Square also comes to mind.

If the genre is expanded to all American Icons, I'd think the Statue of Liberty takes the cake.

8 posted on 02/23/2013 3:43:23 PM PST by C210N (When people fear government there is tyranny; when government fears people there is liberty)
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My dad was “drinking buddies” with Ira Hayes in the early 1950s in Arizona. Both were hard drinkers. Pop told me:” The poor slob got liquored up and passed out in a ditch and froze to death.”
9 posted on 02/23/2013 3:57:14 PM PST by 4yearlurker (I hate February.)
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Wow. We must be in the same age group. I haven’t heard anyone mention Funkadelic/Parliament in years. Those guys were terrific back in the day. My favourite was “I Just Want To Testify”. Thanks for jogging my memory.


10 posted on 02/23/2013 4:05:11 PM PST by Dartman (Mubarak and Gaddafi are going to look like choirboys when this is over)
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“Dewey Defeats Truman” would be in the top ten, too.

Let’s see.. (not all of these are parodied, but are at least famous):

Astronaut on the moon saluting the flag would be up there.

There’s that Vietnamese guy shooting a prisoner with a pistol.

Little naked Vietnamese girl (napalm attack victim)

The soldier in the Spanish Civil War that looks like he just got shot in the back

Marilyn Monroe over the wind grate


11 posted on 02/23/2013 4:13:56 PM PST by Chad N. Freud (FR is the modern equivalent of the Committees of Correspondence. Let other analogies arise.)
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... oh — and:

The Depression-era mother clutching her kids


12 posted on 02/23/2013 4:14:56 PM PST by Chad N. Freud (FR is the modern equivalent of the Committees of Correspondence. Let other analogies arise.)
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Bit of flag raising trivia ... one of the Marines in the second raising was Sgt Michael Strank.
His birthday - 10 November - same as the Marine Corps birthday.

Semper Fi ...
13 posted on 02/23/2013 4:20:21 PM PST by oh8eleven (RVN '67-'68)
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Marilyn Monroe standing over the sidewalk grille in New York might be a contender for most-viewed.


14 posted on 02/23/2013 4:26:08 PM PST by lurk
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I choke up a little every time I read, hear or say......

"Uncommon valor was a common virtue."

Semper fi.

15 posted on 02/23/2013 4:29:04 PM PST by clintonh8r (Happy to be represented by Lt. Col. Allen West)
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In the 9th grade (YEARS AGO!), The Chorus did a living tableau of this at the end of our Concert.


16 posted on 02/23/2013 4:30:19 PM PST by left that other site (Worry is the darkroom that developes negatives.)
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“”Wow. We must be in the same age group. I haven’t heard anyone mention Funkadelic/Parliament in years.”

By that logic, the OP of the thread must be 90 years old because he posted about Iwo Jima.

“Dewey Defeats Truman would be in the top ten, too.

Let’s see.. (not all of these are parodied, but are at least famous):

Astronaut on the moon saluting the flag would be up there.

There’s that Vietnamese guy shooting a prisoner with a pistol.

Little naked Vietnamese girl (napalm attack victim)

The soldier in the Spanish Civil War that looks like he just got shot in the back

Marilyn Monroe over the wind grate”

Firefighters raising the flag over the WTC rubble, last helicopter out of Saigon, Berlin Wall being demolished. Those are all good ones too.


17 posted on 02/23/2013 4:37:38 PM PST by Strk321
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she set up her pictures. studied it in art class. still a good photo.


18 posted on 02/23/2013 4:55:00 PM PST by huldah1776
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I wonder if he was using a speed graphic? With those dudes, you really didn’t need to use the viewfinder.


19 posted on 02/23/2013 5:07:47 PM PST by ArmstedFragg (hoaxy dopey changey)
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He was setting up for a different shot when he spotted the group of men planting the flag and quickly took a snap without even looking through the viewfinder. The chance photo would become iconic overnight and go on to win the Pulitzer Prize.


There were two flag raisings...the original and one staged.

The one almost everyone sees is the staged one and the original was never really shown to the public.

It’s a shame that the public has been conned into believing that the popular picture was real. Even the statuary is false!


20 posted on 02/23/2013 6:00:57 PM PST by DH (Once the tainted finger of government touches anything the rot begins)
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