Famous photos :)
Education, Training, & influences
- Joe attended McKinley Technical High School in Washington, D.C.
Early Career
- After his graduation in 1929 Rosenthal began working as an office boy with the Newspaper Enterprise Association, where he gained experience in photojournalism.
- When America entered World War II Rosenthal joined the U.S. Maritime Service and spent a year as a warrant officer, taking photographs and documenting life aboard ship in Europe and Africa.
- Rosenthal took the famous Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima photograph that made his name.
Later Career
- Rosenthal's photograph is certainly one of the best-known images of World War II: he captured the heroism of the Marine Corps at a crucial moment, just as Americans began to question their role in the war.
- Rosenthal was present during the initial assault on Iwo Jima on 19 February 1945.
- Rosenthal continued his career as a photojournalist and worked for the San Francisco Chronicle until his retirement in 1981.
- He died in Novato, California, in 2006. That year he was posthumously awarded the Distinguished Public Service Medal by the U.S. Marine Corps.
Why famous & Awards won
- earned himself a Pulitzer Prize
- he witnessed a group of six marines raising a much larger flag on a heavy pole. He quickly snapped the image: the frame took 1/400th of a second, the speed of the shutter on his Speed Graphic camera.
- Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima photograph that made his name
- He received a $4,200 bonus in war bonds from the AP, a $1,000 prize from a camera magazine, and about $700 for a few radio interviews. His name does not appear on the Marine Corps statue.
Websites
- http://www.anb.org/articles/16/16-03564.html
- http://iphf.org/inductees/joe-rosenthal/