CONTENTS

List of Illustrations

Foreword

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Part 1: Practically Picture-Perfect

1The Photo

2The Place Where People Meet

3The Publication

Part 2: The True Story of the Kiss

4The Duck from Portuguee Island

5The Saved

6The Model

7The Father of Photojournalism

8Morning, V-J Day, 1945

9She Looked Like a Nurse

10The Last Day of Leave

11In Search of the Picture

12The Kiss

13Pictures from V-J Day

Part 3: The After LIFE

14No One Seemed to Notice

15Eisenstaedt Names the Nurse

16LIFE’s Invitation

17I’m the Real Kissing Sailor

18For Dissemination of News

Part 4: The Case for George and Greta

19The Forensics

20You Want to Believe Them All

21More Plot Than Proof

22Considerations

23A Mountain of Evidence

24Indisputable? The Case for Greta

Part 5: What Happened to the Truth?

25The Carnival

26The Circus

27The Current

28A Leica’s Notes

Notes

Bibliography

Index