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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The power of a photograph

I chose that image because it was taken in one of my favourite places. This place, as I said one day in class, is Ibiza. I love it because there are a lot of beaches, luxury and party. So, it's the perfect island you can go in summer during holidays. To be precise, in the photograph you can see a beautiful sunset. It's near a swimming pool and next to the sea too. I think all these things together can transmit a good feeling. It's very peacefull, natural and maybe romantic if you are with a special person in that moment. The image is very dark but the colours red and orange highlight and make the photo a bit colourful.

This moment was taken from inside a room of the hotel. The person who took the photo is my brother, because he went during a week this summer. He said to me that it was amazing. He's a professional photographer, so he made a lot of fantastic photographs during his time in Ibiza.

I also want to be a photographer because I think it's an interesting profession.

I hope in the future I could do the same as my brother and maybe one day I will go to Ibiza to have a very good time and to make a lot of photos like this.

Marina López

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The power of a photograph

"Abbey Road"

The photo I chose is one of The Beatles. I think it's the most known picture of them.On it we can see that they are on a street called Abbey Road and that they are walking on a zebra crossing. The one that is dressed with a white suit is John Lennon, the other one, dressed in black, is Ringo Starr, then it goes Paul McCartney and finally George Harrison. 

This photo is the cover of their last album, called "Abbey Road" in honour of the street. Initially it was going to be called "Everest" and they were preparing a photoshot in the Himalayas. On the background we can see a white "beatle" Volkswagen. It became famous and finally it was sold in an auction for 2,300 pounds.

The street is situated in Westminster, London. Nowadays there's a camera installed there and you can see the people that walks along it. The plate of the street's name was stolen by some fans.

The photo was spontaneous, because they didn't prepare the place to do the photoshot or their clothes. They just went out of their studio while the photographer, Ian McMillan, took photos of them. It was taken the 8 of August in 1969, and now it has become a tradition to cross that road every 8 of August.

I chose this picture because I wanted to talk about something that I really like: the music, and The Beatles are really important and famous in that world. Also because it's a very known photo.

Carla Martínez

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