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The Rosenthal Iwo Pic

from Chris Yeager (cyeager@ix.netcom.com)
Ref the "off topic" fire-picture thread, there is a lot written on the Iwo Jima picture.... It was not really a re-enactment, they wanted to put up a bigger flag so they brought one up and did the raising again. The guys didnt know they were being photographed, nobody directed. I remember reading Rosenthal saying something like "I'd just shot the first one so I'd figured out the settings etc... then someone said "hey the'yre doing it again" so i just turned around and shot it..." I'm just paraphrasing here but that was the gist... like they (and i) say a lot, luck is where preparedness meets opportunity. It's an ungodly beautiful picture.... dont have time to look for the Rosenthal interview, maybe someone else knows... meanwhile here's two interesting quickly-viewed pages

Iwo1

Iwo2

(posted 8583 days ago)

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