On August 14, 2005, John Seward Johnson II displayed a bronze life-size sculpture of the kiss, Unconditional Surrender, at a 60th-anniversary reenactment at Times Square. His statue was featured in a ceremony that included Carl Muscarello and Edith Shain as participants, holding a copy of the famous photograph.

2016年9月11日 · T he woman photographed in the iconic picture of a World War II sailor kissing a nurse died Thursday at the age of 92. Greta Zimmer Friedman, identified later as the nurse in the photo, became...

The enduring World War II photo-mystery solved at last? An excerpt from the new Naval Institute Press book The Kissing Sailor.

2024年3月6日 · The picture portrays a U.S. Navy sailor grabbing and kissing a stranger—a woman in a white dress—on Victory over Japan Day in New York City's Times Square.

2024年3月5日 · The sailor featured in the iconic Times Square kissing photo from World War II probably should have grabbed a different woman for his smooch seen around the world.

2016年9月14日 · When World War II finally came to a close on August 14, 1945, Americans all over the country took to the streets to celebrate the end of a long and brutal war. All the outpourings of relief and...

On V-J Day, August 14, 1945, Zimmer had left work at the dental office dressed in her uniform and was in Times Square among those gathering in anticipation of an announcement of the end of World War II, when a stranger dressed in a Navy sailor uniform grabbed her and kissed her.

2020年8月14日 · On August 15, 1945, World War Two came to an end when Japan surrendered to the Allied forces. People around the world took to the streets to begin celebrating, even before the official documents had been signed. In New York, Times Square was flooded with jubilation and excitement, and this is where photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt found himself.

2015年8月14日 · Eisenstaedt's iconic photo: A jubilant American sailor clutched a dental assistant in a back-bending kiss at a moment of spontaneous joy about the long awaited WWII victory over Japan. Taken on V-J Day, 1945, as thousands jammed Times Square.

2018年2月1日 · Unconditional Surrender is a three-dimensional interpretation of a photo taken by Alfred Eisenstaedt of a Sailor kissing a nurse in Times Square, New York City on Aug. 14, 1945, following the announcement of V-J Day. The contrast of Zimmer’s bright white uniform with Mendonsa’s dark suit caught Eisenstaedt’s eye.