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3 pages in length. Perhaps no other photographic image represents the inherently painful conditions of political and social upheaval than that of Joe Rosenthal's famous photograph of Marines raising a U.S. flag over Iwo Jima during World War II. The historic image - which "derives its power from a simple, dynamic composition, a sense of momentum and the energy of six men straining toward a common goal" (Macy, 2006) - illustrates just how popular perception of an event revolves around considerable randomness and unpredictability inherently associated with the historic impact a given photo might embody. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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social upheaval than that of Joe Rosenthals famous photograph of Marines raising a U.S. flag over Iwo Jima during World War II. The historic image - which "derives its
power from a simple, dynamic composition, a sense of momentum and the energy of six men straining toward a common goal" (Macy, 2006) - illustrates just how popular perception of
an event revolves around considerable randomness and unpredictability inherently associated with the historic impact a given photo might embody. For Rosenthal, who long ago noted that his photograph was
not intentionally posed, the events that led up to and ultimately composed the shot reflected nothing different than with any other job Rosenthal had to do: He approached it with
the same vigilance he gave to all his work. This time, however, he was able to retrieve that proverbial needle from the haystack. "My stumbling on that picture
was, in all respects, accidental...I swung my camera around and held it until I could guess that this was the peak of the action, and shot. Had I posed
that shot, I would, of course, have ruined it...It was like shooting a football game. You never knew what you got on film" (Johnson, 2006). The events leading
up to the celebrated were no more monumental to the overall atmosphere than most any other victorious battleground image; in fact, another photographer had shot a similar photo just prior
to Rosenthal that, while the same men were involved in a different aspect of the flag raising process, its composition lacked that certain something when compared with the one known
by site all over the world. The artistic value of Rosenthals historic photograph speaks most compellingly how photography is a language unto itself by virtue of its ability
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