Joe Rosenthal
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Joe Rosenthal (born October 9, 1911) was a Jewish American photographer, who received the Pulitzer Prize for his iconic World War II portrait of American troops raising the flag on Mount Suribachi during the Battle of Iwo Jima.
Rejected by the army as a photographer because of poor eyesight, Rosenthal joined the Associated Press and followed the Marines in the Pacific Theater of Operations during the war. His picture of five marines and a navy corpsman raising the flag on Mount Suribachi ("Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima") became one of the best known photographs of the war. The photograph is copyright by the Associated Press.
After the war, Rosenthal worked as a photographer for the San Francisco Chronicle.
Rosenthal was extensively interviewed after September 11, 2001 when Thomas E. Franklin shot a similar iconic photograph Ground Zero Spirit depiciting the raising of the flag by three firefighters at the World Trade Center. Rosenthal and Franklin met several times after the event.
References
- Mark Edward Harris. "Joe Rosenthal: The Road to Glory". In: Camera & Darkroom (ed.), Volume 16 Number 6 (June 1994). Beverly Hills, CA. pp. 40-49.
- Hal Buell. Uncommon Valor, Common Virtue: Iwo Jima and the Photograph that Captured America (May 2006). New York, NY.
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