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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 statue in the middle was erected in memory of South African troops who died in WWI
Nov 1946.
Photo: Nat Farbman
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These scans come from my rather large magazine collection. Instead of filling my house with old moldy magazines, I scanned them (in most cases, photographed them) and filled a storage area with moldy magazines. Now they reside on an external hard drive. I thought others might appreciate these tidbits of forgotten history.
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I found this cover in Uncle Dave' s garage... Wondering whatever became of Regina Fisher I found this little blurb via Google... Regina Fisher, a Pittsburgh native, had heard Roy Stryker lecture while at school in New York. When she learned of the project in her hometown, she approached him and was hired. Later, Fisher won fifth prize in the picture story division of Life magazine’s Young Photographer’s Contest for some of her PPL work, and she was featured on the cover of the November 26, 1951 issue. ( www.cmoa.org/info/npress83.asp ) Cover photographed by Roy Stryker.
Work by Regina Fisher: encore.einetwork.net/iii/encore/search/?target=regina+fis...