Greta Friedman, the woman in white kissed by a sailor in New York’s Times Square in a photograph symbolising the end of the second world war, has died aged 92. Photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt snapped a sailor in a dark uniform kissing Friedman with his arms around heras revellers in New York’s Times Square celebrated the victory over Japan, or V-J Day. Eisenstaedt’s photo, “V-J Day in Times Square”, ran the following week in Life magazine. The photographer recalled in his 1985 book Eisenstaedt on Eisenstaedt: A Self-Portrait that a sailor in Times Square was kissing women randomly. If the sailor had worn a white uniform, the same,” he said.

Source: The Guardian September 10, 2016 23:03 UTC