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JOE ROSENTHAL, Signed Iwo Jima Reprint Image

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Historic World War II “Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima” Signed Image Reprint

JOE ROSENTHAL, American Photographer Who Captured Flag-raising at Iwo Jima.
Later Reproduction of the famous photograph, Signed, “Joe Rosenthal, Mt. Suribachi, Feb 23, 1945”, at some later date, in black felt tip pen, 12.75” x 10”, Choice Mint. The signature is recent and date offered refers to the day the original photo was taken. Joe Rosenthal took the original famous photograph on February 23, 1945 of five US Marines and one US Navy corpsman raising a United States flag atop Mount Suribachi during the Battle of Iwo Jima in World War II. Originally rejected as a photographer for the Army due to poor eyesight, Rosenthal would go on to join the Associated Press and follow the Marines in the Pacific Theater of Operations during the war. That photo won him the 1945 Pulitzer Prize for best photo; the only photograph to win in the same year it was taken. This printed reproduction of that photo is accompanied by an essay by Rosenthal titled, “The Picture that Will Live Forever.”

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