My first real job out of college was at the Time Inc Picture Collection, starting in 1995. I had the pleasure of meeting Eisenstaedt, who still had an office at Life Magazine upstairs and sometimes attended our Friday breakfast meetings. It was amazing to be in the presence of someone who had seen so much shit go down. A big regret is I didn't engage with him more. He passed only a few months after I started the job. At the time all the original images were checked out by hand to the photo editors like a library. I must have handled the original copy of the Goebbels photo, as well as the sailor kissing the nurse, hundreds of times by the time the collection was digitized in the early 2000s. Thank you for writing this!
My daughter is 20 and just told me she knew the history of the famous sailor kissing (grabbing) a dental assistant photo; apparently they teach this in school now (or some of them at least). I sure didn’t learn about that.
I wonder at the thoughts and actions of a person who becomes intimate with the idea that there is no way out, this is your last hour or even the last moments of a life you created and the world hates the person you have become. Infamy is Goebbles legacy, and sadly, that legacy has been passed down to the likes of Trump supporters.
My first real job out of college was at the Time Inc Picture Collection, starting in 1995. I had the pleasure of meeting Eisenstaedt, who still had an office at Life Magazine upstairs and sometimes attended our Friday breakfast meetings. It was amazing to be in the presence of someone who had seen so much shit go down. A big regret is I didn't engage with him more. He passed only a few months after I started the job. At the time all the original images were checked out by hand to the photo editors like a library. I must have handled the original copy of the Goebbels photo, as well as the sailor kissing the nurse, hundreds of times by the time the collection was digitized in the early 2000s. Thank you for writing this!
Powerful stuff. Thank you for sharing!
My daughter is 20 and just told me she knew the history of the famous sailor kissing (grabbing) a dental assistant photo; apparently they teach this in school now (or some of them at least). I sure didn’t learn about that.
F*** Goebbels is right.
Are we sure that isn't a picture of the vampire Stephen Miller in one of his previous incarnations?
I wonder at the thoughts and actions of a person who becomes intimate with the idea that there is no way out, this is your last hour or even the last moments of a life you created and the world hates the person you have become. Infamy is Goebbles legacy, and sadly, that legacy has been passed down to the likes of Trump supporters.
Always punch nazis
Gobble Gobble, Turkey nut, killed his children, wife and himself??!
Great work here.