Uncommon Valor, Common Virtue
Iwo Jima and the Photograph that Captured America
A dramatic photo history of the battle of Iwo Jima and the iconic picture that captured America-DVD included! On February 23, 1945, as the battle for the Japanese island stronghold of Iwo Jima raged below, Associated Press photographer Joe Rosenthal's camera captured six troops raising the Stars and Stripes on Mt. Suribachi. That photograph would go on to symbolize the Marines' valor and America's determination to win World War II. This is the story of the ten days Rosenthal spent on Iwo Jima-and how his Pulitzer-winning picture came to be. Containing over 120 combat photographs- including shots of the flag-raising by other photographers-qu…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-101-20582-2
- EAN: 9781101205822
- Produktnummer: 17991232
- Verlag: Penguin Publishing Group
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2006
- Seitenangabe: 272 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 6'163 KB
Über den Autor
Hal Buell is a veteran photo editor who has spent more than forty years with the Associated Press, twenty-five of them as head of the international photo service. A graduate of Medill School of Journalism, Northwestern University, he lives in New York.
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