Kiss – The paint
http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/08/06/that-times-square-smooch-right-to-the-kisser/
News photographers are always urged to write detailed captions about their photos, and with good reason.
Alfred Eisenstaedt failed to do so with his renowned image of a sailor kissing a nurse in Times Square on Aug. 14, 1945, during the celebration to mark V-J Day, the end of World War II.
As of 1995, three women had stepped forward saying they were the nurse in the photo. Of the three, Edith Shain, a kindergarten teacher in Beverly Hills, Calif., seemed to state the strongest case — or at least the earliest. In 1980, she wrote a letter to Eisenstaedt claiming to be the nurse in the photo, and Eisenstaedt flew to California to photograph her for Life. Eisenstaedt died in 1995.
For now, Life’s position is that the identity of the couple remains a mystery. The A.P. quoted Robert Sullivan, the editorial director of Life Books, as saying: “The recent (claims) are ‘CSI’ type of inquiries. We think that’s great, but we just can’t know for sure on our end. We can’t be in a position of anointing one or the other without hard proof.”
