(WORLD WAR TWO) Mydans Carl; photographer Japanese Surrender

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(WORLD WAR TWO.) Mydans, Carl; photographer. Japanese Surrender. Gelatin silver print, 16 x 20 inches, and 13 3/4 x 19 1/4 to sight as matted, signed by the photographer and numbered 115 of 250 in lower margin; pasted into mat on outer margins. Tokyo Bay, 2 September 1945; printed circa 1990

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Mydans was a celebrated Life Magazine staff photographer. This is a limited-edition print of one of his most iconic images, capturing the formal end of hostilities between Japan and the Allies. General Yoshijiro Umezu signs the Instrument of Surrender by command of Emperor Hirohito. Foreign Minister Mamoru Shigemitsu stands behind him, wearing a top hat. Douglas MacArthur as commander of the Allied forces stands at the microphone, back to the camera, waiting to accept the surrender.