Today's the 60th anniversary of the flag-raising on Iwo Jima, and Greg Williams, art director for design at the Tampa Tribune, has found an interesting perspective on the event. It's been known that there were two similar images of the event: AP photographer Joe Rosenthal's Pulitzer Prize-winning shot (right) and a frame from Marine cinematographer Sgt. Bill Genaust's footage capture the same instant in time. And since the photographers were standing side by side, the Tribune realized something that apparently no one else had:

By juxtaposing Rosenthal's photograph with the matching frame from Genaust's film, it is possible to produce an authentic 3-D image of the Iwo Jima flag-raising.

For the first time, we can see one of the most iconic moments in U.S. military history with a real sense of depth and spatial relationships.

The 3-D effects are not the result of digital manipulation or computer trickery. They are based on the same photographic techniques that have been used to produce stereoscopic imagery for more than a century.

A 3-D photograph allows the viewer to see a single image from two slightly different viewpoints, mimicking the natural separation of human eyes.

>Dimensions of Valor [The Tampa Tribune]