She then slaps the boy, exclaiming, "Knock it off!". Eisenstaedt's iconic photo: A jubilant American sailor clutched a dental assistant in a back-bending kiss at a moment of spontaneous joy about the long awaited WWII victory over Japan. William C. Shrout The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images Written By: Eliza Berman Alfred Eisenstaedt’s photograph of a sailor kissing a woman in Times Square, after news broke of the Japanese surrender in World War II, has lived a storied life since it was taken on August 15, 1945. In one photo, Eisenstaedt kisses a reporter, his camera slung over his shoulder, in a pose not unlike that of the famous kiss he photographed that day. [3] 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. [43], In 2005, John Seward Johnson II displayed a bronze life-size sculpture, Unconditional Surrender, at an August 14, 2005, 60th-anniversary reenactment at Times Square, of the kiss. began calling the photograph a documentation of a type of normalized sexual assault. V-J Day celebrations in Times Square, August 14, 1945. Combined with bemused expressions on some of the bystanders and the sailor's firm grasp of the nurse, the situation has been described as emblematic of a time when women were "subordinated to men", or, that of a rape culture. V-J Day Kiss in Times Square. Explore {{searchView.params.phrase}} by color family {{familyColorButtonText(colorFamily.name)}} August 1945. [23] George and Rita joined the celebration in the street, but when they could not get into the packed bars decided to walk down the street. Alfred Eisenstaedt’s photograph of a sailor kissing a woman in Times Square, after news broke of the Japanese surrender in World War II, has lived a storied life since it was taken on August 15, 1945. [10] Jorgensen entitled his photograph Kissing the War Goodbye. The United Kingdom announced that its official V-J Day would be the next day, August 15, 1945, and Americans exuberantly joined in that day’s merriment, too. He claimed that he was in Times Square on August 14, 1945, and that he kissed numerous women. Alfred Eisenstaedt, a photojournalist, was photographing the chaos in Times Square that evening when he happened upon a sailor who kissed a nurse in the middle of the square. But I wanted to be able to tell other people so I replicated the pose.[35]. I wasn't kissing him. George Mendonsa was in attendance for the unveiling. [17][18][19] Shain's letter motivated the magazine to publish a request for the other subject to come forward. There is no way to tell. Eisenstaedt was born in West Prussia in 1898, and began taking photographs as a freelance photographer in Berlin in 1928. It took by a photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt. Day I saw a sailor running along the street grabbing any and every girl in sight. Mendonsa planted a kiss on Friedman, whom he had never met. On August 3, 2008, Glenn McDuffie was recognized for his 81st birthday as the "Kissing Sailor" during the seventh-inning stretch of the Houston Astros and New York Mets game at Minute Maid Park. Photograph by Alfred Eisenstaedt. was unveiled on August 24, 2013, to honor the event captured in the photograph. In recent decades this iconic photograph has engendered condemnation, after Greta Zimmer Friedman, the woman being kissed by the sailor (believed to have been George Mendonsa) said that the kiss was nonconsensual. The victory over Japan day in Times Square, known as V-J Day in Times Square, is a photograph taken in 1945 by Alfred Eisenstaedt. The photograph was shot just south of Forty-fifth Street looking north from a location where Broadway and Seventh Avenue converge. While the angle of the Jorgensen photograph may be less interesting artistically than that of the Eisenstaedt photograph, it clearly shows the exact location of the iconic kiss, as occurring in the front of the Chemical Bank and Trust building, with the Walgreens pharmacy sign on the building façade visible in the background. [37][38] He stated that on that day he was using the subway to go to Brooklyn to visit his girlfriend, Ardith Bloomfield. The picture portrays a U.S. Navy sailor grabbing and kissing a stranger—a woman in a white dress—on Victory over Japan Day (“V-J Day”) in New York City’s Times Square on August 14, 1945. Whether she was a grandmother, stout, thin, old, didn't make a difference. Navy Vet in 'V-J Day in Times Square' Photo Dies. Benson stated that "it is therefore my opinion, based upon a reasonable degree of certainty, that George Mendonsa is the sailor in Mr. Eisenstaedt's famous photograph. "[31] Muscarello has described his condition on August 14, 1945 as being quite drunk,[32] and having no clear memory of his actions in the square. Alfred Eisenstaedt’s jubilant photograph of a man and woman locked in a tight embrace, set against the backdrop of Times Square on V-J Day has become one of the most recognisable images of the twentieth century. I just can't say he is. This was the hectic scene in Times Square, New York City, on August 14, 1945, otherwise known as Victory over Japan Day, or V-J Day. [17] They made their determination after much study including photographic analysis by the Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories (MERL) in Cambridge, Massachusetts, who were able to match scars and tattoo spotted by photograph experts, and the testimony of Richard M. Benson, a photograph analysis expert, professor of photographic studies, plus the former dean of the School of Arts at Yale University. [42] The people pictured in the photograph did not previously know one another. V-J Day in Times Square (1945), taken on August 14th in midtown Manhattan by acclaimed Life photojournalist "[17], The identity of the sailor as George Mendonsa has been challenged by physicists Donald W. Olson and Russell Doescher of Texas State University and Steve Kawaler of Iowa State University based on astronomical conditions recorded by the photographs of the incident. But in 2005, Shain was much less certain, telling the New York Times, "I can't say he isn't. V-J Day in Times Square (also V-Day and The Kiss) is a photograph by Alfred Eisenstaedt that portrays a U.S. Navy sailor grabbing and kissing a stranger—a woman in a white dress—on Victory over Japan Day (“V-J Day”) in New York City ‘s Times Square on August 14, 1945. Captured by LIFE magazine photographer, Alfred Eisenstaedt, he described the iconic moment in his book, Eisenstaedt on Eisenstaedt: “In Times Square on V.J. LIFE photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt and a reporter during V-J Day celebrations in Times Square, August 14, 1945. I noticed a sailor coming my way. He was kissing me. A two-page spread faces a montage of three similar photographs of cele… [21], Verria and Galdorisi's 2012 book about the identity of the subjects of the photograph stated that Shain could not have been the woman because her height of just 4 ft 10 in (1.47 m) was insufficient in comparison with the height of any of the men claiming to be the sailor. U.S. Navy photojournalist Victor Jorgensen captured another view of the same scene that was published in The New York Times the following day. V-J Day in Times Square is a photograph by Alfred Eisenstaedt that portrays a U.S. Navy sailor embracing and kissing a total stranger[1]—a dental assistant—on Victory over Japan Day ("V-J Day")[2] in New York City's Times Square on August 14, 1945. The image on that day in Times Square is perfect: The … They further point to a clock seen in the photograph, its minute hand near the 10 and its hour hand pointing virtually vertically downward, indicating a time of approximately 5:50, and to Victor Jorgensen's account of the circumstances of his own photograph. Another LIFE photographer, William C. Shrout, brought a different set of negatives back to the office that day, with his own perspective on the people’s response to peace. [48] Controversy over it being kitsch and having been revealed to depict subjugation during an assault continued unabated as copies of the statue were slated for more permanent displays in some of the cities visited. Since its time, the photograph has experienced widespread… 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 and her purse and skirt as an uninhibited sailor plants his lips squarely on hers" I could tell just in general that yes, it's him. Mendonsa and Friedman (both individually and together), as well as Shain, Muscarello, and McDuffie, were widely interviewed in the succeeding years by Life, PBS, NBC, CBS, and others. Around the time the picture was taken it was featured in Life magazine. [22], George Mendonsa (or alternatively Mendonça, according to certain sources) of Newport, Rhode Island, on leave from the USS The Sullivans (DD-537), was watching a movie with his future wife, Rita Petry,[17] at Radio City Music Hall when the doors opened and people started screaming the war was over. The astonished woman on the left in Jorgensen's photograph has been positively identified as Kay Hughes Dorius of Utah.[11]. Then suddenly, in a flash, I saw something white being grabbed. Travel back in time with treasured photos and stories, sent right to your inbox, Where it Happened: A Former G.I. FRIEDMAN WASN’T A MILITARY NURSE. Alfred Eisenstaedt The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images. Eisenstaedt 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. President Harry S. Truman at seven o'clock). And Shrout’s images of the man behind that photo remind us that, even if a photojournalist is meant to be an impartial witness to history, he is also a part of the history he is witnessing. [28][29] The Sarasota Police Department was notified and authorities have since restored the statue. above), Kafi Benz of the local organization Friends of Seagate, noting that it was conveying a message about subjugation,[43] referred to the removal of Confederate monuments and memorials related to subjugation (that was ongoing following the killing of George Floyd), identified that as one of several reasons the public art committee of Sarasota should recommend removal of the sculpture from public land in the city. Eisenstaedt’s iconic photo: A jubilant American sailor clutched a dental assistant in a back-bending kiss at a moment of spontaneous joy about the long awaited WWII victory over Japan. It shows less of Times Square in the background, lacking the characteristic view of the complex intersection so that the location needs to be identified using other details. In 2019, shortly after Mendonsa died at age 95, a statue of the kiss in Florida was tagged with #metoo graffiti. Greta Zimmer Friedman, identified later as the nurse in the photo, became the subject of perhaps the most iconic photo taken on V-J Day on Aug. 14, 1945… This iconic image is one that I have seen many times, but never took the time to look at closely. Explore the Photograph. In two books he wrote decades apart, Alfred Eisenstaedt gave two slightly different accounts of taking the photograph and of its nature. [36] He came out of the subway at Times Square, where people were celebrating in the streets. While Shrout’s photos have much in common with Eisenstaedt’s—kisses abounded that day—they capture one thing that Eisenstaedt couldn’t easily have captured: images of Eisenstaedt himself. In another, he and that women walk toward Shrout, bright smiles on their faces. She measured his ears, facial bones, hairline, wrist, knuckles, and hand, and she compared those to enlargements of Eisenstaedt's photograph. Lawrence Verria and George Galdorisi, authors of The Kissing Sailor, a 2012 book about the identity of the subjects of the photograph that had become so famous, used interviews of claimants, expert photograph analysis, and identification of people in the background, as well as, consultations with forensic anthropologists and facial recognition specialists. It was announced that, after a half-decade of conflict, Japan had surrendered and that the War in the Pacific—and thus the Second World War itself—was finally over. The photograph was published a week later in Life magazine, among many photographs of celebrations around the United States that were presented in a twelve-page section entitled "Victory Celebrations". [20], On June 20, 2010, Shain died at age 91 of liver cancer. Previous photograph Next … In the film Letters to Juliet (2010), the photograph is featured in a scene where a magazine editor questions a writer about her fact-checking regarding the image. Drunk at the time of the photograph, the sailor is shown kissing an unwilling partner (according to historic preservationist Kafi Benz, among the four frames taken by Eisenstaedt, available through Getty Images, the woman is shown defensively socking the man in the face with the closed fist of her one, free arm). [1], "The guy just came over and grabbed!" V-J Day in Times Square—which is also called V-Day or the Kiss—was a spontaneous photo taken on Leica IIIa camera by Alfred Eisenstaedt, one of the most prolific photographers of the 20th century who worked for Life. LIFE photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt kissed a reporter during V-J Day celebrations in Times Square, August 14, 1945. A nurse saw him, and opened her arms to him. His statue was featured in a ceremony that included Carl Muscarello and Edith Shain as participants, holding a copy of the famous photograph.[44]. Then I noticed the nurse, standing in that enormous crowd. V-J Day in Times Square. I took exactly four pictures. ", Friedman told CBS News in 2012. ET. It was Tuesday noon August 14, 1945 when Radio Tokyo broadcasted a statement by Emperor Hirohito. V-J Day in Times Square, also known as V-J and The Kiss, was taken on August 14, 1945. [23], Carl Muscarello was a retired police officer with the New York City Police Department, who relocated to living in Plantation, Florida. V-J Day in Times Square is a photograph by Alfred Eisenstaedt that portrays an American sailor kissing a woman in a white dress on Victory over Japan Day (V-J Day) in … It has also in recent years received a sort of #metoo infamy, after the woman in the photo said that the kiss was nonconsensual. The photograph is dark and shows few details of the main subjects, not showing the lower legs and feet of the subjects, but showing clearly the powerful headlock. Browse 598 v j day in times square stock photos and images available, or start a new search to explore more stock photos and images. Then suddenly, in a flash, I saw something white being grabbed. But “The Kiss” was not the only photograph taken that day, nor was Eisenstaedt the only photographer navigating the boisterous New York City festivities. His claim was based on matching his scars and tattoos to scars and tattoos in the photograph. [42], In the 2010s bloggers[who?] Top entries this week. Donald W. Olson and his investigative team estimate that the photograph was taken at 5:51 p.m. I looked up and saw he was taking the picture and I kissed her as long as took for him to take it. In 1995, he claimed to be the kissing sailor. Coordinates: .mw-parser-output .geo-default,.mw-parser-output .geo-dms,.mw-parser-output .geo-dec{display:inline}.mw-parser-output .geo-nondefault,.mw-parser-output .geo-multi-punct{display:none}.mw-parser-output .longitude,.mw-parser-output .latitude{white-space:nowrap}40°45′28″N 73°59′09″W / 40.757682°N 73.98571°W / 40.757682; -73.98571. It was then that George saw a woman in a white dress walk by and took her into his arms and kissed her, "I had quite a few drinks that day and I considered her one of the troops—she was a nurse. I focused on her, and just as I'd hoped, the sailor came along, grabbed the nurse, and bent down to kiss her. I was running ahead of him with my Leica looking back over my shoulder but none of the pictures that were possible pleased me. The random factor of the photo … Takes His Bride on a Battlefield Tour, Feeling a Draft: LIFE’s Ode to Beer Drinkers, Canada’s School on Wheels: A Teacher’s Daughter Remembers. The photo by Alfred Eisenstaedt was first published in Life magazine and is called "V-J Day in Times Square," … Explore {{searchView.params.phrase}} by color family {{familyColorButtonText(colorFamily.name)}} [4] The photograph does not clearly show the face of either person involved, and numerous people have claimed to be the subjects. Nonetheless, Shain cultivated the notoriety associated with her claim and accepted invitations to attend events related to the photograph and to meet with men claiming to be the sailor. The above photograph is entitled V-J Day in Times Square, taken by Alfred Eisenstaedt in 1945. The original interpretations of the photograph centered on the jubilation of the 1945 V-J Day celebrations. Alfred Eisenstaedt. [17], In 1987, George Mendonsa filed a lawsuit against Time Inc. in Rhode Island state court, alleging that he was the sailor in the photograph and that both Time and Life had violated his right of publicity by using the photograph without his permission. However, Olson and Doescher argue that the positions of shadows in the photographs suggest that it was taken after 5 p.m. The contrast between her white dress and the sailor's dark uniform gives the photograph its extra impact. [citation needed] McDuffie died on March 14, 2014.[40]. The town of Oak Ridge was established by the Army Corps of Engineers as part of … The photograph was published a week later in Lifemagazine, among many photographs of celebrations around the United States that were presented in a twelve-page section entitled "Victory Celebrations". V-J Day celebrations in Times Square, August 14, 1945. If the sailor had worn a white uniform, the same. "[17] In one of the four photographs that Eisenstaedt took, Mendonsa claims that Rita is visible in the background behind the kissing couple. [36] McDuffie, a native of Kannapolis, North Carolina, who had lied about his age so he could enlist at the age of 15, went on after the war to play semi-pro baseball and to work for the United States Postal Service. [42], At a June 2020 public meeting in Sarasota, Florida about the placement of a copy of Unconditional Surrender, a sculpture based on the historic photographs (cf. Day I saw a sailor running along the street grabbing any and every girl in sight. They concluded that the woman was Greta Zimmer Friedman and that she was wearing her dental hygienist uniform in the photograph. The photograph depicts a sailor kissing a young nurse in the middle of Times Square in New York. A number of replies were received, both from men and women claiming to be one of the subjects. In 2019, shortly after Mendonsa died at age 95, a statue of the kiss in Florida was tagged with #metoo graffiti. To the exclusion of any other woman claiming to be the subject, Mendonsa identified Friedman as the "nurse" he kissed in the photographs (or, to be precise, the woman in the white uniform, as Friedman was a dental assistant—a white uniform was customary in a dentist's office to be worn by female assistants and hygienists in that era). The context of the photo must be taken into consideration. Trends International Life Magazine-V-J Day in Times Square Wall Poster, 22.375" x 34", Premium Unframed Version. Friedman died at age 92 on September 8, 2016, in Richmond, Virginia, of age-related health complications. [15][16], Edith Shain wrote to Eisenstaedt in 1980 claiming to be the woman in the photograph. V-J Day in Times Square (also known as The Kiss) is a photograph of an American sailor kissing a woman in a white dress while standing in the middle of Times Square in New York City. V-J Day in Times Square is a photograph by Alfred Eisenstaedt that portrays a U.S. 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. In recent decades this iconic photograph has engendered condemnation, after Greta Zimmer Friedman, the woman being kissed by the sailor (believed to have been George Mendonsa) said that the kiss was nonconsensual. Carl Muscarello and Edith Shain -- among those who have claimed to be the nurse and sailor in the famous V-J Day photo -- kiss next to a sculpture based on the photo in Times Square … Taken on V-J Day, 1945, as thousands jammed Times Square. In the others the emphasis is wrong — the sailor on the left side is either too small or too tall. [12], "It wasn't my choice to be kissed. Shortly after Mendonsa died, one of the Unconditional Surrender statues commemorating the photograph, located in Sarasota, was vandalized with red #MeToo graffiti. In the film Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian (2009), two characters jump into a life-size enlargement of the photograph, finding themselves in a monochrome Times Square. The photo of an American sailor kissing a nurse in a white dress on Victory over Japan Day in the middle of Time Square, in New York City, on August 14, 1945. This prompted the magazine to publish a request for the man to identify himself. They received several claims from men and unexpectedly, additional claims from women. [39], Gibson had also analyzed photographs of other men who have claimed to be the sailor, including Muscarello and Mendonsa (Mendonça), reporting that neither man's facial bones or other features match those of the sailor in the photograph. ", Friedman stated in a 2005 interview with the Library of Congress. Edith Shain initially said she believed Muscarello's claim to be the sailor and they even dated after their brief reunion. “I went straight to Times Square,” Greta Zimmer Friedman said in a 2005 interview for the Library of Congress’s Veterans History Project, “where I saw on the lighted billboard that goes around the building, V-J Day, V-J Day, and that really confirmed what the people have said in the office.” [24] Citing legal costs, Mendonsa dropped his lawsuit in 1988. In Times Square on V.J. They concluded that Mendonsa's version of events is untenable. VJ Day - Times Square Collection of Donald Olson By coincidence, this amateur V-J Day photograph of the Bond Clothes clock shows the exact time of Manhattan's sunset -- 7:56 p.m. My first impression of the image was that it conveyed a sense of unparalleled happiness and spontaneity. [25], Mendonsa was identified by a team of volunteers from the Naval War College in August 2005 as "the kisser". A uniformed sailor clutches a woman at her waist, her back arched dramatically as their lips lock, their faces obscured. A statue commemorating Eisenstaedt’s photo in Times Square, August 2015. It was done within a few seconds. In The Simpsons episode "Bart the General" (first airdate February 4, 1990), victory celebrations following a "war" between two groups of children include a boy in a sailor outfit kissing Lisa as a photograph is taken. [49], In the video game Wolfenstein: The New Order (2014), an alternative history version of the V-J Day kiss (V-A Day in the timeline) appears as a Nazi soldier forcing himself on the nurse, in Paris instead of New York. In 2012, while performing a show for the Marines during the New York City Fleet Week, singer Katy Perry kissed a man on stage, replicating the pose. [14], She never was willing to participate in a reenactment of the image. she said, adding, "That man was very strong. [30], As part of a World War II memorial at Battleship Cove in Fall River, Massachusetts, a new painting entitled Victory Kiss by Jim Laurier of New Hampshire Browse 598 v j day in times square stock photos and images available, or start a new search to explore more stock photos and images. Alfred Eisenstaed—Time Life/Getty Images. "[1][13], "I did not see him approaching, and before I know it I was in this tight grip. Taken on V-J Day, 1945, as thousands jammed Times Square. Follow her on Twitter @lizabethronk. Only one is right, on account of the balance. Glenn McDuffie laid claim in 2007 and was supported by Houston Police Department forensic artist Lois Gibson. Decades later, in 1980, Eisenstaedt received a request for a copy of the photograph from a woman claiming to be the woman in it. 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