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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Pretty sure it was 68 years ago. Way to go Naval Institute.
...as part of my Funkadelic/Parliament collection of LPs.
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.
The article doesn’t actually say it was 67 years ago...
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.
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.
“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
... oh — and:
The Depression-era mother clutching her kids
Marilyn Monroe standing over the sidewalk grille in New York might be a contender for most-viewed.
"Uncommon valor was a common virtue."
Semper fi.
In the 9th grade (YEARS AGO!), The Chorus did a living tableau of this at the end of our Concert.
“”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.
she set up her pictures. studied it in art class. still a good photo.
I wonder if he was using a speed graphic? With those dudes, you really didn’t need to use the viewfinder.
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.
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!
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