Wednesday, October 21, 2009


POSED OR RE-ENACTMENT?

SLEEPLESS IN MY SHUTTLE. A reader sent me via e-mail a protest on a previous comment I had written saying that the famous flag-raising by US Marines on Iwo Jima was "posed."

That great photo won a Pulitzer prize for photographer Joe Rosenthal. However, reference materials say that the flag-raising was a "re-enactment" for Rosenthal who had not taken the photo as it actually happened.

Isn't "re-enactment" also "posed?"

1 comment:

MBW said...

I also read same thing somewhere, i.e., it was re-enacted to give a more dramatic effect.