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. Unlike the Eisenstaedt photograph, which is protected by copyright, this Navy photograph is in the public domain because it was produced by a federal government employee on official duty. 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. 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. Jorgensen titled his photograph Kissing the War Goodbye. Navy photojournalist Victor Jorgensen captured another view of the same scene that was published in The New York Times the following day. Victor Jorgensen photograph Jorgensen's similar copyright-free photograph His photograph became a cultural icon overnight and, by establishing his copyright, Eisenstaedt carefully controlled the rights to it, only allowing a limited number of reproductions that determined how it could be used. The contrast between her white dress and the sailor's dark uniform gives the photograph its extra impact. Now if this girl hadn't been a nurse, if she'd been dressed in dark clothes, I wouldn't have had a picture. I focused on her, and just as I'd hoped, the sailor came along, grabbed the nurse, and bent down to kiss her. Then I noticed the nurse, standing in that enormous crowd. He was grabbing every female he could find and kissing them all - young girls and old ladies alike. I was walking through the crowds on V-J Day, looking for pictures. People tell me that when I am in heaven they will remember this picture. In the others the emphasis is wrong - the sailor on the left side is either too small or too tall. 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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