I wish some of today's AP crew could have learned the right lesson from him -- it's not just about getting the dramatic picture, it's about telling truth, especially when there is real heroism going on in front of you. And, you may never get a Pulitzer for you pics, but as long as you are faithful to (a) facts and (b) the people of your nation, you may have a place in history.
"Out of the corner of my eye, I had seen the men start the flag up. I swung my camera and shot the scene. That is how the picture was taken, and when you take a picture like that, you don't come away saying you got a great shot. You don't know."
"Millions of Americans saw this picture five or six days before I did, and when I first heard about it, I had no idea what picture was meant."
He recalled that days later, when a colleague congratulated him on the picture, he thought he meant another, posed shot he had taken later that day, of Marines waving and cheering at the base of the flag.
He added that if he had posed the flag-raising picture, as some skeptics have suggested over the years, "I would, of course, have ruined it" by choosing fewer men and making sure their faces could be seen.
Point taken?
Update: Scott Johnson has posted a very nice piece on Rosenthal, with others' comments, over at Power Line.
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