Alfred Eisenstaedt

Life lives again online

atHome Top Story (Free subscription) | 24/09/2008

Call it the brand that will never die.

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Unconditional Surrender

NewMexiKen (Free subscription) | 14/08/2008

Edith Cullen Shain is the nurse in the famous Alfred Eisenstaedt photo V-J Day in Times Square taken 63 years ago today. She kept her identity secret for 34 years, then identified herself to Eisenstaedt and he confirmed it was her when they met. From an interview two years ago: “The street was just [...]

N.C. boy knew how to celebrate

NewsObserver.com - Local & State (Free subscription) | 04/07/2008

Glenn McDuffie may have spent the past 25 or 30 years in Houston, but he's still a Carolina boy — born in a mill house at Cannon Mills and raised on Packard Avenue in Kannapolis, just up the street from some of the world's greatest race car drivers.

Daniel Rubin: Just a kiss - or was it?

Philadelphia Inquirer (Free subscription) | 29/06/2008

Some memories from that day are so clear, 63 years later, that Ernie Dubay can still hear them. The buzz in his barracks as sailors switched into their dress blues. The shuffle of feet as he clamored out of the Seventh Avenue subway and headed for the party of his life.

The Justice of Equilibrium

raging universe (Free subscription) | 17/05/2008

Some people view the world as gloomy. They believe that things don't really go well overall. But I think, actually, we're part of one functional system, probably designed to survive and maintain health. If you were a cell in a human stomach, for example, the world might look rough, but the whole body works. Some people are doing a double take watching what seems to be the beginning of a political balancing...

Street Photography: A Lost Art or the New Crime?

BlogHer (Free subscription) | 03/04/2008

“The marvels of daily life are exciting; no movie director can arrange the unexpected that you find in the street.” --Robert Doisneau, French photographer, (1912-1994)

Mismatch.com

Away With Words (Free subscription) | 06/02/2008

What's the story with Match.com's newest logo? I mean that question literally: what story is the design telling? Let's take a closer look at the graphic element: One boy, one girl. From the looks of it, they met on the door of a public restroom. He's standing rigidly; she's leaning...

American New Year [BAGnewsNotes]

The Liberal Blog Network (Free subscription) | 01/01/2008

The power comes from the fact it so obviously references the famous "Times Square Kiss."... Because Alfred Eisenstaedt's iconic photo captured America's WWII victory over Japan, this pic seems a (perhaps, way too) gentle reminder not to forget about the Iraq. In its muted quality -- running hard against the grain of the typical wild abandonment accompanying the Times Square ball drop -- the pic seems...

This Day In History: Dec. 6

The World Almanac (Free subscription) | 06/12/2007

This Day in History 1712: The last issue of the Spectator, an influential 18th-century journal written by English essayists Sir Richard Steele and Joseph Addison, appears. 1790: Philadelphia becomes the U.S. capital, succeeding New York City. (It remains the nation's...

The Evil That Men Do

Mirth, Musings, & More (Free subscription) | 16/08/2007

Dozens of headless walrus carcasses have washed up on Alaska beaches this summer. While native Alaskans are allowed to hunt the animals for subsistence purposes, it is illegal for anyone else to kill the animals. Consequently authorities are investigating to determine if poachers are responsible. This is certainly understandable. We've got a headless President down here in DC, and everyone's investigating...

60-year mystery of VJ-day kiss at an end

The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 13/08/2007

It was an iconic image that captured the wild excitement that greeted the end of the Second World War.

• 60-year mystery of VJ-day kiss at an end - The Telegraph

HPD expert: 80-year-old is Life's kissing sailor

Houston Chronicle (Free subscription) | 04/08/2007

Glenn McDuffie was celebrating something on Friday other than his 80th birthday — what he says is the long-sought "proof" that he was the sailor kissing the nurse in Times Square in the famous Life magazine photograph by Alfred Eisenstaedt.

Forensic artist backs sailor's photo claim

Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 04/08/2007

Glenn McDuffie has claimed for years that he was the sailor kissing a nurse in Times Square in Life magazine's iconic photograph of the...

Houston man's claim as kissing sailor gets boost

Houston Chronicle (Free subscription) | 04/08/2007

Glenn McDuffie was celebrating something on Friday other than his 80th birthday — what he says is the long-sought "proof" that he was the sailor kissing the nurse in Times Square in the famous Life magazine photograph by Alfred Eisenstaedt.

Forensic evidence says man was the kissing sailor

kansascity.com (Free subscription) | 04/08/2007

HOUSTON | Glenn McDuffie has said for years that he was the sailor kissing a nurse in Times Square in Life magazine’s iconic photograph of the day that World War II ended.