Famous Photography.

Previously posted on my Facebook Page. 

Zigzag Road, officially Kennon Road, is a two lane 20.83 mile roadway in Benguet province in the Philippines connecting the mountain city of Baguio to the lowland town of Rosario in La Union province. Baguio is my family’s 2nd home city (after Quezon City). I used to travel up/down the road. The road project started in 1903 during American commonwealth time; named after its builder Col. Lyman Walter Vere Kennon of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. 📷📸📸

“The Kissing Sailor.” A sailor, George Mendonsa (1923–2019), jubilantly kissing a woman, Greta Zimmer Friedman (1924-2016), in Times Square on August 14, 1945. The kiss came after news of Japan's surrender, ending World War II. "Suddenly I was grabbed by a sailor, and it wasn't that much of a kiss," Ms Friedman told the Library of Congress. Life photographer Alfred Eisenstadt and Navy photographer Victor Jorgensen both captured the moment. 📷📸📸

“Migrant Mother.” Dorothea Lange’s 1936 photograph of 32-year-old farmworker Florence Owens Thompson and three of her children, huddled in a tent at a pea-pickers’ camp in Nipomo, California. The image epitomizes the desperate circumstances during the Great Depression. The photo was made for the U.S. Resettlement Administration, a federal agency created to document and remedy the plight of the urban and rural poor in the 1930s. 📷📸📸

Marilyn Monroe’s “flying skirt.” Photographed by Sam Shaw. The dress was designed by William Travilla for a sequence in the 1955 film “The Seven Year Itch,” directed by Billy Wilder. The scene: Monroe and costar Tom Ewell exit the Trans-Lux 52nd Street Theatre on Lexington Av. When they hear a subway train passing below the sidewalk grate, she steps on it and asks "Ooh, do you feel the breeze from the subway?" as the wind blows the dress up, exposing her legs. 📷📸📸

“Lunch atop a Skyscraper” was taken on Sept 20, 1932, of 11 ironworkers sitting on a steel beam 850 feet above the ground on the 69th floor of the RCA Building (Rockefeller Center) in Manhattan NYC. Arranged as a publicity stunt, it was part of a campaign promoting the skyscraper. The photo was often misattributed to Lewis Hine, a Works Progress Administration photographer. In 2016, the photography was acquired by the Visual China Group. 📷📸📸