Man says he’s sailor in famous photo on Yahoo! News Photos:

Glenn McDuffie holds a portrait of himself as a young man, left, and a copy of Alfred Eisenstaedt’s iconic Life magazine shot of a sailor embracing a nurse in a white uniform, right, at his Houston home Tuesday, July 31, 2007. McDuffie says he is the sailor in the famous photograph and that claim is now backed up by the Houston Police Department’s forensic artist. (AP Photo/Pat Sullivan)

It’s a stunningly small world. In recent years the story has come out about a range of images that have haunted our imaginations for decades.

The French author of the iconic image of Che Guevara, for instance, was interviewed not long before he died last year when he mentioned that he never received or sought a penny for the image that adorned the bedroom walls of every kids gaining his first ounce of testosterone.  The Afghani woman with the unbelievably grey eyes captured on the cover of National Geographic was tracked down in the last year of so and we learned of her difficult life. And now this one, perhaps the greatest end-of-war celebratory kiss in the history of combat. Glenn McDuffie! Who knew?

It’s a fair bet that in this digital age and the need for the Warholian 15 minutes, there will be no images that will ever require updating. Pity.

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