Two pictures, a thousand stories
and millions of lives
Story by Stephen J. Thorne
They say a picture’s worth a thousand words. These two pictures spawned a thousand stories and to this day, some 70 years later, they speak in profound reflection to two triumphs and the prices paid.
Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima by Joe Rosenthal and Soviet Flag over the Reichstag by Yevgeny Khaldei are two of the most iconic photographs of the Second World War.
But their genesis and their evolution in the archive of immortal photographs have taken a long and circuitous route through history.
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