Published: February 23, 2013
At the end of World War II, Ozzie Sweet’s picture of a friend posed as a
German soldier surrendering appeared on the cover of Newsweek — “the
magazine of news significance,” as it billed itself then. Not a
stratagem that would pass muster in contemporary journalism, but Mr.
Sweet, who had apprenticed to the Mount Rushmore sculptor Gutzon
Borglum, appeared in a Cecil B. DeMille film and helped create
promotional ads for the United States Army, found the art in photography
to be in creating an image, not capturing one. Read More in the New York Times.
