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Joe Rosenthal

Joe Rosenthal was a photographer, reporter, and honorary marine.  His photograph is one of the most iconic photograph's ever. It is the Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima. In doing research about Joe he was rejected by the U.S. Army as a photographer because he had poor eyesight. So, he attend the University of San Francisco  later he joined Associated Press and fallowed the United States Army and U.S. Marine Corps. When Joe took this ionic photo it was in the middle of chaos. The first rising of the flag he did not get but he was so focused of getting the right shutter speed on his Speed Graphic he ended up getting the second shot. 


Speed Graphic Camera

source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Rosenthal

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