>From the BBC: [He is reported to have made less than $10,000 (£5,300) from what is widely considered to be one of the most famous photographs of the war. "And I was gratified to get that," the San Francisco Chronicle quotes him as saying in a 1995 interview.
"Every once in a while someone teases me that I could have been rich. But I'm alive. A lot of the men who were there are not. And a lot of them were badly wounded. I was not. And so I don't have the feeling someone owes me for this." ] Norm ----- Original Message ----- From: "John Francis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Pentax List" <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, August 21, 2006 3:30 PM Subject: Joe Rosenthal dies (aged 94) > > Joe Rosenthal, probably best-known for his photograph of > (a recreation of) US Marines raising the flag on Iwo Jima > died yesterday. > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
