Only one is right, on account of the balance. If the sailor had worn a white uniform, the same. If she had been dressed in a dark dress I would never have taken the picture. I turned around and clicked the moment the sailor kissed the nurse. Then suddenly, in a flash, I saw something white being grabbed. I was running ahead of him with my Leica looking back over my shoulder but none of the pictures that were possible pleased me. Whether she was a grandmother, stout, thin, old, didn't make a difference. Day I saw a sailor running along the street grabbing any and every girl in sight. In two books he wrote decades apart, Alfred Eisenstaedt gave two slightly different accounts of taking the photograph and of its nature. In their history pages, Life has noted that the Eisenstaedt photograph was taken with a Leica IIIa camera. Olson and his investigative team estimate that the photograph was taken at 5:51 p.m. The photograph was shot just south of 45th Street looking north from a location where Broadway and Seventh Avenue converge. The photograph does not clearly show the face of either person involved, and numerous people have claimed to be the subjects. Eisenstaedt said that he did not have an opportunity to get the names and details, because he was photographing rapidly changing events during the celebrations. A two-page spread faces a montage of three similar photographs of celebrators in Washington, D.C., Kansas City, and Miami, opposite the Eisenstaedt photograph that was given a full-page display on the right hand side.Įisenstaedt was photographing a spontaneous event that occurred in Times Square during keen public anticipation of the announcement of the end of the war with Japan (that would be made by U.S. The photograph was published a week later in Life magazine, among many photographs of celebrations around the United States that were presented in a 12-page section entitled "Victory Celebrations". Navy sailor embracing and kissing a total stranger -a dental assistant-on Victory over Japan Day ("V-J Day") in New York City's Times Square on August 14, 1945. V-J Day in Times Square is a photograph by Alfred Eisenstaedt that portrays a U.S. V-J Day in Times Square, a photograph by Alfred Eisenstaedt, was published in Life in 1945 with the caption, "In New York's Times Square a white-clad girl clutches her purse and skirt as an uninhibited sailor plants his lips squarely on hers" Alfred Eisenstaedt signing a copy of his famous V-J Day in Times Square photograph during the afternoon of August 23, 1995, while sitting in his Menemsha Inn cabin located on Martha's Vineyard.
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