Victor Jorgensen
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Victor Jorgensen is a former Navy photo journalist who is probably most famous for taking the same picture but at a different angle of the VJ Kiss as Alfred Eisenstaedt. Eisenstaedt's better known photograph was published in Life and the day after kiss Jorgensen's photograph was published in the New York Times[1].
[edit] World War II photographer
Jorgensen toured around the world during World War II taking pictures for the military. While aboard the USS Monterey (CVL-26) he even captured Navy pilots in the forward elevator well playing basketball., ca. 06/1944 one of whom, the jumper of the left, turned out to be the future President Gerald Ford[2][3]
[edit] References
- ^ Marshall Berman (March / April issue 2007). COLUMBIA FORUM: Everyman in Times Square (HTML). COLUMBIA FORUM. Retrieved on 2007-09-24. “They were also photographed at just about the same moment, from a slightly different (and less exciting) angle, by U.S. Navy photographer Victor Jorgensen; Jorgensen’s photo was reprinted in the next day’s New York Times.”
- ^ World War II Photographs (HTML). militaryunits (2007). Retrieved on 2007-09-09. “WW2042 "Activities aboard USS MONTEREY. Navy pilots in the forward elevator well playing basketball." Jumper at left identified as Gerald R. Ford. Attributed to Lt. Victor Jorgensen, circa June/July 1944. 80--G--417628”
