My oh so great photograph that I like so much is a picture done by an artist that is not very well known named Alfred Eisenstaedt. Alfred Eisenstaedt was working as a photographer at that point in time for Time Magazine and experienced a moment in Americans history that forever changed us. The photo he took was called “Soldier kissing girl in time square”. This was a very famous photo because it was taken August 15, 1945 at the end of the world war two and because the soldier was just so happy to be home and alive, he picked the first girl he saw and took her in his arms and kissed her. The photographer, Alfred Eisenstaedt, just snapped pictures left and right in order to capture this special moment in American history that he did not even get the names of the people in the pictures he took. However on the 50th anniversary, the man and woman in the picture were identified as Edith Shain and Carl Muscarello.
The reason why I like this photo so much is because it showed America celebrating after many years of loss and heart ache. Also I enjoy this particular photograph because it shows just how young our soldiers were who fought for our independent country. These men were just merely boys who wanted to show that they could fight for what they were told was right. These boys still had dreams of being married and having kissed a random girl who just happened to be standing right next to where he was at that point in time. This photo also shows the spontaniousness of the men who were just barely able to be called men while fighting for our country.
That's all for now!
~Ali
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