le baiser du marin

Encore, me direz vous !

Dans le dernier billet sur le baiser , j'avais cité parmi mes deux images préférées celle d'Alfred Eisenstaedt prise ne 1945 à Times square montrant un marin embrassanr une jeune femme  le jour où fut annoncé la victoire des Alliés..

Je viens de trouver quelque part sur le web un commentaire expliquant les circonstances de l'image; c'est amusant et en anglais mais facile à traduire ; je vous le livre...sous la photo :

 

"On August 14, 1945, the news of Japan’s surrender was announced in the United States, signaling the end of World War II. Riotous celebrations erupted in the streets, but perhaps none were more relieved than those in uniform. Although many of them had recently returned from victory in
Europe, they faced the prospect of having to ship out yet again, this time to the bloody Pacific.

Among the overjoyed masses gathered in Times Square that day was one of the most talented photojournalists of the 20th century, a German immigrant named Alfred Eisenstaedt. While snapping pictures of the celebration, he spotted a sailor "running along the street grabbing any and every girl in sight." He later explained that, "whether she was a grandmother, stout, thin, old, didn’t make any difference."

Of course, a photo of the sailor planting a wet one on a senior citizen wouldn’t have made the cover of Life, but when he locked lips with an attractive nurse, the image was circulated in newspapers across the country. Needless to say, "V-J Day" didn’t capture a highly anticipated embrace by long-lost lovers, but it also wasn’t staged, as many critics have claimed. In any case, the image remains an enduring symbol of America’s exuberance at the end of a long struggle."