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Photographic memory |
| Author: PublishTime:2005-8-22 |
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A KISS is just a kiss - but not this kiss.
Sixty years later, the photograph of the exuberant kiss by a sailor on the lips of a surprised, white-uniformed nurse in Times Square has become the iconic image of the day World War II ended.
This photo has become an iconic image of the end of World War II.
"It was a very long kiss," Edith Cullen Shain, the nurse in the historic photograph, recalled last week. "It was like a dance step, the way he laid me over in his arms."
Shain said she closed her eyes and never looked at the sailor.
"I just got lost in the moment," said Shain, now an 87-year-old great-grandmother living in California.
To Shain's delight, a life-size colour-painted sculpture of the famous photograph was shown to the public last week in New York City's Times Square.
"It's amazing," said Shain after seeing the sculpture. "I think it says love, romance, peace and a future."
On August 15, 1945, Allied forces declared victory over Japan. People were very emotional. They headed to Time Square, hugging and kissing each other.
"I let him kiss me because he had been in war and he fought for me," Shain said. "I only wish now I had had a conversation with him or asked his name."
At the moment, Shain had no idea Life magazine photographer Alfred Eisenstadt took her picture. When the photo ran in the magazine the following week, Shain, then 27, recognized herself. But she didn't tell anyone because she was "too embarrassed".
Soon afterwards, Shain moved to California. She married and had three children. She gave up nursing and taught in a kindergarten for 30 years.
In 1979, she wrote to Eisenstadt and admitted she was the nurse in his photo. She said Eisenstadt, who died in 1999, flew out to California to interview her and confirmed that she was indeed the nurse.
But the identity of the sailor remains a mystery. More than 20 men, including a former New York detective and a retired Florida fisherman, have come forward claiming to be the kisser.
Retired New York cop Carl Muscarello, 78, is believed to be the young sailor who kissed Shain.
But Shain, who chose Carl as her mystery kisser 10 years ago, is not so sure now. She thinks she'll never be able to find the identity of her sailor.
"There were so many people kissing," she said, "I think they all believe they are right."
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exuberant: 充满喜悦的
historic: 有历史意义的
hug: 拥抱
iconic: 标志性的
sculpture: 雕塑
from 21stcentury.chinadaily.com.cn/article.php?sid=19967 |
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