The artist Joe Rosenthal was born Oct 9 1911, Washington, USA.
Died Aug 20 2006 Novato, California.
Style and technique of Joe Rosenthal: Photography,
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Joe Rosenthal books & exhibition catalogues.
"It was like shooting a football game. You never knew what you got on film."
Fifty years ago this month, a young Associated Press photographer named Joe Rosenthal shot the most memorable photograph of World War II, a simple, stirring image of five Marines and one Navy corpsman raising the flag at Iwo Jima…
"I could only hope that it turned out the way that I looked at it through the finder."
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