[Leica] Now: Rosenthal/Suribachi (was fired for Photoshopping)

[Tim Atherton <tim@KairosPhoto.com>]

http://books.reviewindex.com/reviews/0275950638.html

Joe Rosenthals famous photo of the (second) flag-raising on Suribachi was
such a singularly powerful allegorical image that it became a sort of
Rorschach Test of attitudes, with viewers assigning values to it that have
had more to do with their own prejudices that the event itself.

Albee and Freeman carefully reexamine the history and controversy to show
that while the "Sands of Iwo Jima" movie version of history is not accurate,
accusations of staging the famous photo are baseless and a slander on
Rosenthal, a modest and honest man.

With maps, bibliography, index, and a remarkable series of photos with
analysis, which when carefully examined unmistakably support the authors
narrative of the events, and in no way disparage the courage of the men on
that bleak and windswept mountaintop.

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