The power of a photograph

"The kiss" by Alfred Eisenstaedt

This photo was taken in Times Square, New York. At first, you can see a beautiful kiss between a marine and a nurse, and a lot of people walking around them looking the scene smiling.

The marine was dressing his uniform: dark clothes, a blue and white scarf around the neck and a white hat.

The nurse was dressing a white dress, white shoes and white tights.

It was taken on the 14 of August of 1945. They were two unknown young persons celebrating the end of the Second World War.

The marine was walking through Times Square kissing all the girls he saw, and  when he saw the nurse, he took her by the waist and she went up her right leg.

The photographer was Alfred Eisenstaedt. He was a very famous photographer of the Western of Prussia (the actual Poland). He started  his photographer life there, but in 1935 he went to the USA, and since then he lived there all his life.

When he saw, on Time Square the kiss, he took a photo quickly.

On the 27 of August of 1945, the photo was on the cover of Life's magazine.

I chose this photo because I think this is a very romantic moment of the history.

The photo was really natural and spontaneous, because they weren't posing for the photo. I think this is striking too, because it's too strange to see a nurse kissing a marine on the street.

I like how a simple kiss can represent the end of a big war.

Andrea Fernández

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