Joe Rosenthal - Photographs London Tuesday, November 23, 2021 | Phillips
  • Provenance

    Private Collection, USA

  • Literature

    T. Thorney, Immortal Images: A Personal History of Two Photographers and the Flag-raising on Iwo Jima, Annapolis: Naval Institute, 2008, cover
    E. M. Hammel, Iwo Jima, Minneapolis: Zenith, 2009, p. 121
    H. Buell, Uncommon Valor, Common Virtue: Iwo Jima and the Photograph that Captured America, Bridgewater: Paw Prints/Baker & Taylor, 2010, cover

86

Flag Raising at Iwo Jima

1945
Gelatin silver print.
14.8 x 11.7 cm (5 7/8 x 4 5/8 in.)
Signed, dated and annotated 'mt. Suribachi Iwo Jima' in ink in the margin.

Estimate
£5,000 - 7,000 

Sold for £5,040

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London Auction 23 November 2021