Joseph rosenthal biography
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Joseph Rosenthal (camera operator)
British filmmaker (–)
For the American photographer, see Joe Rosenthal.
Joseph 'Joe' Rosenthal () was a British camera operator who specialised in filming wars and travel subjects. Conflicts he filmed include the Second Boer War and the Russo-Japanese War. Though preceded as a war filmmaker by some amateurs, film historian Stephen Bottomore has called him the first 'true professional' to film a war.[1]
Early life
[edit]Rosenthal was the son of Jewish jeweler and general trader Joseph Rosentall and his gentile second wife Matilda (née Brokenbrow).[2] He worked as a pharmaceutical chemist before he joined the Continental Commerce Company, Edison film agents in London, in late He had been recommended to its manager Charles Urban by his younger sister Alice Rosenthal, who was the company's sales manager, on account of his knowledge of photography.[3]
Second Boer War
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Primary Sources
(1) Jorge Lewinski, The Camera At War ()
The picture of the raising of the Stars and Stripes on the top of Mount Suribachi was published throughout the world. It was taken by an Associated Press photographer, Joe Rosenthal. Later it was established that this was not a photograph of the original event. The first flag-raising was photographed by S/Sgt Louis R. Lowery, working for the Marines' magazine Leatherneck. While the ceremony was taking place, a hidden Japanese survivor threw two grenade at the group on the summit. The first grenade blew up the flag; the second fell at the feet of the photographer. Lowery dived down the steep side of the dormant volcano, rolling some 50 feet before he stopped, having dislocated his side and breaking his cameras. Later the same day a second raising of the flag was arranged, using a larger flag. This time a far more powerful an carefully worked-out picture was shot by Rosenthal. It was this second
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“That,” he declares with a proud chortle, “is the greatest photograph of World War II.”
In , Joe Rosenthal was 33, and as an AP photographer assigned to the Pacific theater of the war, Rosenthal had already distinguished himself photographing battles at New Guinea, Hollandia, Guam, Peleliu and Angaur.
Joe Rosenthal took one of the most famous photographs of World War II, but only after both the U.S. Army and the Navy had rejected him as a military photographer because his eyesight was impaired. Rosenthal saw action when The Associated Press sent him to the Pacific.
On February 23, , four days after D-Day at Iwo Jima, Rosenthal was making his daglig trek to the island on a Marine landing craft when he heard that a flag was being raised atop Mount Suribachi, a volcano at the southern tip of the island. Marines had been battling for the high ground of Suribachi since their initial landing on Iwo Jima, and now, after suffering terrible losses on the beaches below