Monday, November 10, 2008

Alfred Eisenstaedt, , v j day kiss

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Edith Shain, 90 years old claims that she is the nurse in the famous Alfred Eisenstaedt photo, Flickrer Sionfullana snaps what we're calling The New Kiss. She is one of several women who have claimed to be the nurse over the years.

A recreating of Alfred Eisenstaedt's iconic image of a Times Square lip lock amid celebrations at the end of WWII, originally published in Life magazine.

Its really pretty much impossible to know who is in the photo. Times Square was full of people celebrating the end of World War II when Japan finally surrendered. Eisenstaedt has said he didn’t know who the two were. He was taking photos as a Life Magazine photographer and not stopping to identify the people. There was just too much excitement and too much happening. The faces of the sailor and the nurse are obscured so they can’t be positively identified from the picture.

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