"Kiss after victory"
A photograph that has not only become a cult in the media space. For Americans, it is akin to the Marine Corps memorial (a monument that depicts four Marines hoisting the United States banner). There has been a lot of speculation about this photograph over the past 70 years. The picture was taken by journalist Alfred Eisenstadt for LIFE magazine. For a long time, it was believed that a young couple who finally met after a long separation just got into the frame.
In fact, two complete strangers are kissing. The picture shows sailor George Mendonsa and dental worker Greta Friedman. The 22-year-old sailor was walking through Times Square in New York during his leave of absence when the radio announced that the war was over. To celebrate, the young man began to run down the street and kiss all the women (including the elderly) and girls. This was later confirmed by Greta herself, who said that she had fled back to the dentistry from the store. After the spontaneous kiss, she never saw Mendonce again.
"Lunch on a skyscraper"
This photo has the most controversy. The shot was taken in September 1932 during the "Great Depression" by an unknown photographer. For a long time, the authorship was attributed to Charles Clyde Ebbets, but the examination made it possible to establish that the picture was not taken by him. The photo was taken during the construction of the RCA Buildings (today it is the GE Building), which is part of the Rockefeller Center complex. Eleven workers sit on a metal beam at the 69th floor at a height of over 200 meters.
The first and foremost thing to know about Lunch on a Skyscraper is that the shot is staged. The workers do not eat at all on the beam. They climbed in there only in order to take the very photo, which was later used for advertising purposes. But then the fun begins. Since there are two points of view about the technical part of the picture.
The first boils down to the fact that Irish and Indian workers agreed to participate in a dangerous photo session for an additional fee without any insurance. Sounds convincing enough, given the fact that there was the worst in the yard at the time. economic crisis, many Americans were left without work, and the rest of the employed lived extremely poor. So some unfortunate hard workers could easily subscribe to this.
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However, there is another point of view that the photo is "fake" and no Rockefeller satraps drove the workers to a height of 200 meters. Of course, Photoshop did not exist in those years. However, they already knew how to do photo retouching in the 1930s. Considering the quality of the photograph, as well as the position of the legs of some workers, it can be reasonably assumed that sitting the hard workers and the beam at the height of the 69th floor were photographed separately, and then the two images were combined in one thing. But this does not negate the fact that the picture was taken at an altitude of 200 meters and without insurance.
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This version can be confirmed by another famous American photograph from 1937 - "The Hunt for a Giant Grasshopper." The photo was published in one of the American newspapers under the yellow news that an American farmer named A.L. Butts shot a huge grasshopper the size of hare! The author of the photograph is unknown, but something else is known for certain - the photograph was created using retouching technology. She was used very actively in those years, primarily in the modeling business and Hollywood. There was no Instagram yet, and the imperfections of the bodies of the stars were already being corrected.
Continuing the topic, you can read about that why in a real Swiss knife a through hole is made.
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