On
August 14, 1945, thousands of men and women embraced one another in New
York City's Times Square to celebrate victory over Japan. But two
people -- a sailor and a nurse -- locked lips at just the right moment
and became larger than life. More than a dozen men and at least three
women claim to be the kissers in Alfred Eisenstaedt's photograph. Of the
men, our favorite is George Mendonça, a Rhode Island fisherman and
World War
II navy recruit, who claims he grabbed the strange nurse and kissed her
right in front of his girlfriend. In fact, Mendonça says his
girlfriend, now his wife, is in the background of the photo.
While
the mystery will probably never be solved, Alfred Eisenstaedt has left
us with a juicy back story. In his autobiography, the famed photographer
writes that he followed around a sailor who moved through the crowd,
kissing anything wearing a skirt. When the sailor hit on a nurse whose
white dress contrasted nicely with his dark suit, Eisenstaedt snapped
the shot. But he failed to get their names.
Coincidentally,
another photographer, Victor Jorgensen, took the same shot from a
slightly different angle and also forgot to get the subjects' names.
Jorgensen's version ran in the next day's New York Times, but as a
working military photographer at the time, he didn't own the rights to
his work. So while Eisenstaedt received glory and royalty checks for his
image, Jorgensen simply got a nice clipping to hang on his fridge.”
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