Photography

In this opportunity I will write about a photograph that I find that says much more than the same image transmits.

It is the famous photograph called V-J Day in Times Square which was taken by Alfred Eisenstaedt on August 14, 1945 at Time Square.

The context of this photograph is placed at the end of the Second World War. During the Victory Day celebrations over Japan, the image shows an American sailor kissing a lady dressed in white in downtown Manhattan, this kiss reveals the joy of Americans at the end of World War II, but at the same time  remembers the pain suffered by the people of Japan from being bombed by two atomic bombs by the United States.

 It is a bittersweet photograph that commemorates the joy of the end of a war and, at the same time, the memory of the pain that this war left throughout the world, especially the Japanese cities bombed.

There are many films based on the last months lived by Japan during the Second World War, one of them and at least I like it a lot, it is an animated film called the tomb of the fireflies of the Ghibli studios, which is based on that moment, although War is not the main plot , one can appreciate how the artist visualizes the fear and pain that the Japanese population went through.