Victor Jorgensen

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name = Victor Jorgensen

Lt. Victor Jorgensen relaxes in his quarters aboard the USS Lexington (CV-16)., ca. 1943

Jorgensen's picture of the VJ Kiss

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Victor Jorgensen is a former Navy photo journalist who is probably most famous for taking the same picture but at a different angle of the "VJ Kiss" as Alfred Eisenstaedt. Eisenstaedt's better known photograph was published in "Life" and the day after kiss Jorgensen's photograph was published in the New York Timescite web |date=March / April issue 2007 |url = http://www.college.columbia.edu/cct/mar_apr07/forum.php|title = COLUMBIA FORUM: Everyman in Times Square|format = HTML |publisher = COLUMBIA FORUM| accessdate = 2007-09-24 | last=Marshall Berman |quote=They were also photographed at just about the same moment, from a slightly different (and less exciting) angle, by U.S. Navy photographer Victor Jorgensen; Jorgensen’s photo was reprinted in the next day’s New York Times. ] .

World War II photographer

Jorgensen toured around the world during World War II taking pictures for the military. While aboard the USS Monterey (CVL-26) he even captured Navy pilots in the forward elevator well playing basketball., ca. 06/1944 one of whom, , turned out to be the future President Gerald Fordcite web |date=2007 |url = http://www.history.navy.mil/bios/ford_gerald.htm|title = President Gerald R. Ford|format = HTML |publisher = [http://www.history.navy.mil US Navy] | accessdate = 2007-09-09 | last= |quote=] cite web |date=2007 |url = http://www.militaryunits.com/photos.htm|title = World War II Photographs|format = HTML |publisher = [http://www.militaryunits.com/ militaryunits] | accessdate = 2007-09-09 | last= |quote=WW2042 "Activities aboard USS MONTEREY. Navy pilots in the forward elevator well playing basketball." Jumper at left identified as Gerald R. Ford. Attributed to Lt. Victor Jorgensen, circa June/July 1944. 80--G--417628]

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