Object Details
- Exhibition Label
- Levinthal's photograph restages an iconic moment captured by Associated Press photographer Joe Rosenthal toward the end of World War II. The original Pulitzer Prize--winning image shows six American Marines from behind raising a flag on Mount Suribachi after taking control of the
- Japanese territory during the battle of Iwo Jima. In Levinthal's version, six toy soldiers face the viewer and raise a tattered American flag. By reversing the vantage point, Levinthal reminds us that history is constantly changing as new perspectives inform what we think we know about the past.
- Data Source
- Smithsonian American Art Museum
- Artist
- David Levinthal, born San Francisco, CA 1949
- Date
- 2013
- Credit Line
- Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Donald Standford Rosenfeld, Jr.
- Copyright
- © 2013, David Levinthal
- Medium
- inkjet print
- Dimensions
- 17 × 22 in. (43.2 × 55.9 cm)
- Type
- Photography
