I saw a show on this on SBS a while ago - Photos of the 20th century I
think. They pretty much said the same thing.
Foxy
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> I have an article on this very topic in the latest issue of a magazine i
write for.
>
> It is an Australian publication, Better Photography, and the issue is the
current one - No. 18, Summer 2000.
>
> The photographer was Joe Rosenthal - and the pic wasn't staged. The
marines had
> raised a smaller flag earlier in the day, but later re-did it with a
> bigger flag and pole. The pole was made of solid iron and joe estimated
> that it would've weighed around 200 pounds.
>
> Joe says the shot definitely wasn't set up, although he says he DID do
> some set-up shots shortly after the famous pic - one shot of 15-20 marines
> cheering and waving under the flag, and another shot of three marines
> holding the pole. However, the famous shot was un-posed.
>
> Joe Rosenthal claims that millions of dollars were made form that one
famous pic.
>
> He also says tat none of the millions ever reached him. He was just a
salaried photographer working for his employer. Work-for-hire,
> perhaps?
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