He then explained his request a little more, saying that when he left to fight he vowed to kiss the first blonde girl he saw upon returning home to High Point, and as my great aunts and great grandmother were all brunettes, my three year old grandmother was the first blonde girl the sailor laid eyes upon.
From Eisenstaedt on Eisenstaedt: In Times Square on V.J. The car was approached by a young sailor who leaned his head into the Ford and asked my great grandfather if he could kiss my grandmother, a toddler at the time. In two different books he wrote, Alfred Eisenstaedt gave two slightly different accounts of taking the photograph and of its nature. My maternal grandmother, born in 1942, told me the story of how her family celebrated V-Day by driving down Main Street in High Point, NC, to greet soldiers and sailors returning home. In middle school, we were assigned a project to interview a relative and have them tell us about a time in their life. It was soon defaced with the hashtag MeToo in red spray paint, referring to Ms Friedman’s lack of consent in the kiss. Another factor adding to my interest in this photo is the story I associate with it. After his death, a statue was erected in Florida of the famous VJ Day kiss. The grand buildings of Times Square frame the photo perfectly with only a sliver of overexposed sky (a mark of the time period in which the photo was taken).
The aesthetic of the photo is visually pleasing, which is impressive for it not being staged, as the stark white of the girl’s clothes are great contrasts to the sailor’s dark uniform. Happiness, romance, and surprise, this moment of celebration has become iconic for the time period. I have always been drawn to how this image completely captures the moment of spontaneity between two strangers when a sailor embraces a girl (sometimes described as a nurse, or just as a white-clad girl). sailor clutching a pretty white-uniformed nurse in a back-bending, passionate kiss as he vents his joy while thousands jam the Times Square area to celebrate the long awaited victory over Japan. Vj Day () by Alfred EisenstaedtLIFE Photo Collection Alfred Eisenstaedt was one of LIFE Magazine’smost notable photographers and photojournalists. No matter the name, this iconic and immediately recognizable photograph was able to enthrall a nation by capturing the emotion of the day the US won World War II. LIFE Photo Collection New York City, United States. In 1927 Eisenstaedt sold his first photograph and began his free-lance career for Pacific and Atlantic Photos Agency in Berlin, which was taken over by Associated Press in 1931. “V-J Day in Times Square”, an image captured by Alfred Eisenstaedt on August 14th, 1945, at almost 6:00PM, is also sometimes called “The Kiss” or “V-Day”. Alfred Eisenstadt ( 1898-1995) began taking pictures at the age of 14 when he was given his first camera, an Eastman Kodak Folding Camera with roll film.
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