Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/09/14
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On 9/14/99 2:35 PM schiemer@magicnet.net wrote >the staged photo of the flag raising on Iwo Jima (to end >up on the cover of Life, to become the model after which a famous sculpture >at Arlington is based. Didn't that win a Pulitzer too?? JEEZUS how long is this urban legend going ot persist. THAT PHOTO WAS NOT STAGED. As I remember it was made during the second raising of the flag, the Marines were still taking fire...the original flag was replaced with a larger one and this is when the photo was made. Harrison McClary Staff Photographer Journal Communications, Inc http://www.jnlcom.com http://www.mcclary.net