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The Iwo Jima photograph 3
25Nov10
The 5×4 inch sheet of film that photographer Joe Rosenthal exposed on Mount Suribachi during World War II was transformed in 1954 into a 60 foot high bronze sculpture. This is a unique metamorphosis: from film to bronze, from 2D to 3D, from small to large. The sculptor of the Iwo Jima monument was Felix […]
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