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Photo of a beaming Brigadier General Manuel Roxas with an unidentified lady to his left. Other military officers can be seen in the background.
(Photo courtesy of LIFE Magazine.)
A digital (*shudder*) attempt at the ole RGB. Again, I used cellophane as filters... which is certainly more effective than the stained glass, printed celluloid and mint containers I tried before.
The caption reads "She decides to die in spite of Doctor Bottles." It's from a collection entitled "A Widow And Her Friends" from 1900. This pieces was given to me by Maury Wilkinson, and then I framed it. It appeared in Life Magazine, and was drawn by Charles Dana Gibson. The series is commonly referred to as "Gibson Girls"
See the companion piece at: flickr.com/photos/darsys/2790121456/
Pretty bad photo but I include it because if its historical significance. Redl was the photographer of those iconic portraits of the major figures of the San Francisco rennaisance of the mid fifties, including several of McLure. (This is a rare case where the term "iconic" is totally appropriate.)
Photo taken at The University of British Columbia, Jan 20, 2006.
Hepburn wearing Givenchy for a fashion editorial which appears in a May 1962 issue of LIFE Magazine.
The photograph is by Howell Conant.
John Seward Johnson's "Unconditional Surrender", a painted bronze reconstruction of Alfred Eisenstaedt's iconic photograph for Life Magazine of a V-J Day kiss in Times Square. Johnson cites his source as another, less well-known, photograph of the same scene by Navy photo journalist Victor Jorgensen. This followed the owners of the copyright to Eisenstaedt's image refusing permission to use it.
I got a little closer to shoot this image of the two mannequins. It doesn't so much re-create the V-J Day image in Times Square as it suggests a sailor returning to his ship and saying goodbye to the nurse he met on shore leave. Perhaps any music playing can be the song "Give Me Something To Remember You By."
Major Joe Foss, from Minnehaha County, shot down 26 enemy planes and earned the Congressional Medal of Honor during World War II. He was later elected governor of South Dakota. LIFE magazine featured Joe Foss in his U.S. Marine Corps uniform, 1943.
I almost never use my flash. For one thing, I don't care for flash photography, unless I am using professional flash units. I liken flash photos to snapshots anyone can take. But I decided to experiment and use fill flash here, to bring up the shadow area. Had there been an HMI light or a reflector available I would have used them instead. Anyway, you can see better the bouquet of roses the nurse is holding as she receives the sailor's kiss. It was not unusual for complete strangers to act so intimate when news of a war's end was announced. It was an affirmation of life.