Joe Rosenthal

"I took the picture, the Marines took Iwo Jima."-Joe Rosenthal

Joe Rosenthal was an american photographer who took the famous photograph of six marines raising the flag at the battle of Iwo Jima. He was actually rejected as a photographer by the U.S. Army because of his bad eyesight, and was following the marine corps as an "embedded journalist" working for the Assiciated Press. He later won a pulitzer prize for the iconic photograph. Rosenthal passed away in 2006, but not before Mr. Slade got his autograph on the back of his pass to the convention, right beside Eddie Adams. This photo was not staged, Rosenthal was just very skilled and lucky. He had just corrected the settings on his speed graphic camera, when he saw the flag going up out of the corner of his eye. He quickly swung the camera around, and took the amazing photograph.