Who is the pioneer of modern reportage photography?

Alfred. Aizenstat (1898 ~1995) is a witness and recorder of many important historical events. During his nearly 70-year photojournalism career, he has shot more than/kloc-0.0 million negatives, and is known as "the pioneer of photojournalism" and "the father of modern reportage photography".

(1) Kiss to celebrate victory

1992, 94-year-old Aizenstat said with emotion when talking about "Kiss to Celebrate Victory" filmed 47 years ago:

Even if I go to heaven, people will remember me. Maybe they won't remember my name, but they all know that a photographer took such a picture that a nurse was kissed by a sailor at the end of World War II. Everyone will remember.

It was1August, 945 15, and the news of the unconditional surrender of the Japanese army came. Aizenstat, who boarded Life magazine, immediately picked up his camera and ran several blocks to new york Times Square to shoot the celebration. There, he found a sailor who couldn't restrain the joy of winning the war and was kissing everyone he saw one by one. Aizenstat immediately took several photos, and the kiss to celebrate victory was one of them.

This photo of sailors kissing unknown nurses expresses people's longing for the end of the war and is famous all over the world.

So, who is this sailor and nurse photographed by Aizenstat? In the following decades, more than 40 men and at least 6 nurses claimed to be "dramatists" of that year, and some even brought their own lawyers. Aizenstat himself can't tell the truth from the false, because he can't remember the name of the subject when he is busy in the bustling crowd.

1988, Aizenstat finally found two heroes of the year-sailor George and girl Levi. He and an old man over 60 came to new york Times Square again, and ingeniously asked the heroine to wear a white dress similar to that of that year and take photos in the same posture, adding a much-told story to the work Kiss to Celebrate Victory.

1995, in order to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the end of World War II, the American stamp company launched a set of commemorative stamps. One of them is printed with a kiss to celebrate the victory.