Rosenthal, Joe, 1911-2006

Joe Rosenthal (1911-2006) was an employee of the Associated Press in 1945 when he took this photograph of U. S. Marines raising the flag on Iwo Jima. He won the Pulitzer prize for it that same year. Rosenthal later worked for the San Francisco Chronicle, retiring in 1981. He made the photograph in this collection from his original negative in 1997 and gave it to fellow photojournalist David Hume Kennerly who donated it to the Briscoe Center.

From the guide to the Joe Rosenthal Iwo Jima Photograph 2004-88., 1945, (Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, The University of Texas at Austin)

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