SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A photojournalist who captured one of the crucial enduring photographs of World Conflict II — the U.S. Marines elevating the flag on the Japanese island of Iwo Jima — can have a block in downtown San Francisco named for him Thursday.
Joe Rosenthal, who died in 2006 at age 94, was working for The Related Press in 1945 when he took the Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph.
After the struggle, he went to work as a workers photographer for the San Francisco Chronicle, and for 35 years till his retirement in 1981, he captured moments of metropolis life each extraordinary and routine.
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Rosenthal photographed well-known folks for the paper, together with a younger Willie Mays getting his hat fitted as a San Francisco Large in 1957, and common folks, together with youngsters making a joyous sprint for freedom on the final day of faculty in 1965.
Tom Graves, chapter historian for the USMC Fight Correspondents Affiliation, which pushed for the road naming, stated it was a disgrace the gifted and humble Rosenthal is understood by most for only one {photograph}.
“From kindergarten to parades, to professional and amateur sports games, he was the hometown photographer,” he advised the Chronicle. “I think that’s something that San Francisco should recognize and cherish.”
The 600 block of Sutter Road close to downtown’s Union Sq. will develop into Joe Rosenthal Manner. The Marines Memorial Membership, which sits on the block, welcomes the road’s new identify.
Rosenthal by no means thought-about himself a wartime hero, only a working photographer fortunate sufficient to doc the braveness of troopers.
When complimented on his Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph, Rosenthal stated: “Sure, I took the photo. But the Marines took Iwo Jima.”
