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Subject: Joe Rosenthal dies (aged 94)
Joe Rosenthal, probably best-known for his photograph of
(a recreation of) US Marines raising the flag on Iwo Jima
died yesterday.
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Subject: Re: Joe Rosenthal dies (aged 94)
Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2006 18:02:28 -0400
From the BBC:
[He is reported to have made less than $10,000 (£5,300) from what is widely
considered to be one of the most famous photographs of the war.
And I was gratified to get that, the San
In the obit in the NY times it mentioned something I had
forgotten
that the men that raised the flag in real life recreated the
act in the
classic John Wayne movie, The Sands of Iwa Jima
I have a distant connection with Ira Hayes, the Pima indian
who was one of the
raisers of the flag - I met
Joe Rosenthal, probably best-known for his photograph of
(a recreation of) US Marines raising the flag on Iwo Jima
died yesterday.
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John,
A nice article today quoted him as saying it was spontaneous, ...just
swung the camera over in time to catch the shot. And citing the
confusion about it as being spontaneous or staged as partly his fault.
He didn't see the film he took until some two weeks later and thought
people were
Not a recreation. It was a replacement flag, larger than the first.
Read Flags of Our Fathers for a good look at the events leading up
to The Photograph, and the aftermath. It was written by a man whose
father was one of those in the photo.
On Aug 21, 2006, at 3:30 PM, John Francis wrote:
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