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The kissing sailor : the mystery behind the photo that ended World War II / Lawrence Verria & George Galdorisi ; foreword by David Hartman.

Verria, Lawrence. (Author). Galdorisi, George, 1948- (Added Author).

Summary:

"On August 14, 1945, Alfred Eisenstaedt took a picture of a sailor kissing a nurse in Times Square, minutes after they heard of Japan's surrender to the United States. Two weeks later LIFE magazine published that image. It became one of the most famous WWII photographs in history (and the most celebrated photograph ever published in the world's dominant photo-journal), a cherished reminder of what it felt like for the war to finally be over. Everyone who saw the picture wanted to know more about the nurse and sailor, but Eisenstaedt had no information and a search for the mysterious couple's identity took on a dimension of its own. In 1979 Eisenstaedt thought he had found the long lost nurse. And as far as almost everyone could determine, he had. For the next thirty years Edith Shain was known as the woman in the photo of V-J Day, 1945, Times Square. In 1980 LIFE attempted to determine the sailor's identity . Many aging warriors stepped forward with claims, and experts weighed in

Record details

ISBN: 9781612510781
ISBN: 1612510787
Physical Description: xx, 267 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Publisher: Annapolis, MD : Naval Institute Press, [2012]
Copyright: ©2012

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Practically picture-perfect. The photo ; The place where people meet ; The publication -- The true story of the kiss. The duck from Portuguee Island ; The saved ; The model ; The father of photojournalism ; Morning, V-J Day, 1945 ; She looked like a nurse ; The last day of leave ; In search of the picture ; The kiss ; Pictures from V-J Day -- The after LIFE. No one seemed to notice ; Eisenstaedt names the nurse ; LIFE's invitation ; I'm the real kissing sailor ; For dissemination of news -- The case for George and Greta. The forensics ; You want to believe them all ; More plot than proof ; Considerations ; A mountain of evidence ; Indisputable? : the case for Greta -- What happened to the truth? The carnival ; The circus ; The current ; A Leica's notes.