The Kiss, and Camera, That Counted

This is one of those weeks where I wish I had $60,000 just sort of hanging around. An autographed print of Alfred Eisenstadt’s V-J Day celebration kiss is going up for auction in Austria along with the camera he used to make the photo in 1945.

I am not one to collect things for the sake of collecting them, but to have Eisie’s camera? The one that made one of the most iconic images of all time?

Well, let’s just be glad I co-signed on this house with my wife …

(Thanks to Greg Mironchuk for the link.)

Mark E. Johnson

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