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This statue by J. Seward Johnson is a recreation of the famous photo by Alfred Eisenstaedt that appeared on the cover of Life magazine at the end of WWII. It's near the U.S.S. Midway museum in San Diego, CA. The name of the statue is "Unconditional Surrender."
I'm sure the tie helps, but I bet the ladies really like him for his hunting skills and mating possibilities.
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Over a thousand Chicagoans from all over the city, gathered at Millennium Park to perform "Crowd Out" by David Lang.
Every year on the anniversary marking the end of World War II, the Times Square Alliance invites couples (though strangers would be more appropriate) to come make out in the same spot this nameless couple did just 62 years ago.
"Couples of all ages and from all walks of life were invited to meet in front of the sculpture “Unconditional Surrender”, which was created by acclaimed artist Seward Johnson, memorializing a famous photo snapped by Lieutenant Victor Jorgenson and evoking the iconic LIFE magazine cover photo taken by Alfred Eisenstaedt.", reported the Alliance website.
Kissers were handed out a sailor cap, roses and... breath mints!
For more, much better pictures, visit the Times Square Alliance website.
For clues that reveal who might have been the passionate nurse and sailor of the picture, read Sewell Chan's article "When a Kiss Isn’t Just a Kiss" in The New New York Times.
Forgive me ... I couldn't resist!
Representing hope and freedom, a 25 foot, 6,000 pound statue named, UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER, by world-renowned artist, J. Seward Johnson, is a three-dimensional interpretation of a photo taken by Alfred Eisenstaedt of a Sailor, Carl Muscarello, kissing a nurse, Edith Shain, in Times Square, New York City on Aug. 14, 1945, following the announcement of V-J Day.
Edith Shain, the nurse memorialized in Eisenstaedt’s photo, states, "There is so much romance in the statue; it gives such a feeling of hope to all who look at it."
“This statue brings back so many memories of peace, love and happiness. During the moment of the kiss I don’t remember much, it happened so fast and it happened at the perfect time. I didn’t even look at the Sailor who was kissing me,” Shain continued. “I closed my eyes and enjoyed the moment like any woman would have done.”
For the next year, the sculpture will stand next to the USS Midway Museum on the San Diego Bay. It was previously displayed in New York City in 2005 and Sarasota, Florida in 2006.
the ads are awesome and in some ways more interesting than the 16 pages of color space walk photos from the gemini 4 mission.
Audrey Hepburn wearing a Givenchy hat for a photo series which appeared in the April 20, 1962 issue of LIFE Magazine.
The photograph is by Howell Conant.
Lt. Cesar Basa (1915-1941) was one of the pioneering pilots of the Philippine Army Air Corp (PAAC), the precursor to the Philippine Air Force. As part of the five Filipino fighter pilots of Curtiss P-26A planes led by Capt. Jesus Villamor, he engaged the Imperial Japanese Air Force. He died during the Japanese strafing of Nichols Field, as Basa who had just landed his plane, was running for cover.
(Photo by Carl Mydans/LIFE Magazine.)
Here's Norm and Tom McMullen (Later to be head of McMullen & Yee Publishing) sitting in Norm's T roadster at a Bob's Big Boy drive-in. This full-page pic' is on page 137 of Life Magazine, April 29, 1957.
The caption below it says;
" A DREAM BOAT for hot-rodders is a chromed roadster like this one belonging to Norm Grabowsky of Sunland, Calif. The car, a Ford with a Cadillac engine, took him $8,000 and five years to build.He and many hot-rodders spend a lot of time at drive-ins where they can satisfy their hunger and show off their creations".
I've met Norm at the NSRA Nats South at Winston-Salem in '79 and later in this century at the Nats South in Knoxville, Tn. Always fun to talk to.
Title: Life Magazine - Oil
Alternative Title: [Life magazine, Texas oil story]
Creator: Robert Yarnall Richie
Date: ca. July - December 1937
Place: Kilgore, Texas
Part Of: Robert Yarnall Richie Photograph Collection
Physical Description: 1 photographic print: black and white; 17.7 x 12.9 cm.
File: ag1982_0234_1631_I_05_life_sm_opt.jpg
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