Victor Jorgensen
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Victor Jorgensen (July 8, 1913 – June 14, 1994) was a former Navy photo journalist who probably is most notable for taking an instantly iconic photograph of an impromptu scene in Manhattan on August 14, 1945, but from a different angle and in a less dramatic exposure than that of a photograph taken by Alfred Eisenstaedt. Both photographs were of the same V-J Day embrace of a woman in a white dress by a sailor. Eisenstaedt's better known photograph, V-J Day in Times Square, was published in Life.
Victor Jorgensen | |
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Born | Victor Hugo Jorgensen (1913-07-08)July 8, 1913 |
Died | June 14, 1994(1994-06-14) (aged 80) |
Occupation | photo journalist |
Known for | taking photograph of nurse Greta Zimmer Friedman being kissed by Navy Sailor George Mendonsa on August 14, 1945 published in The New York Times |
On the day after the images were taken by the two photographers, the one taken by Jorgensen was published in The New York Times.[1] His photograph, which was taken while he was on duty, is retained in the National Archives and Records Administration.