We’ll call this photo “The Last Day of Kindergarten,” and the composition by Joe Rosenthal is exceptional ... I’ve seen many of Rosenthal’s photos as I mine the Chronicle for history ...

"I hope that people will wonder, who was Joe Rosenthal, and they will look it up and they will see these incredible pictures of folks ... It took a few years for it all to happen.

Joe Rosenthal is famous for ... After the war, Rosenthal returned to the Bay Area, and he spent more than three decades taking photos for the Chronicle before retiring in 1981.

Joe Rosenthal, who died in 2006 at age 94, was working for The Associated Press in 1945 when he took the Pulitzer Prize-winning photo. After the war, he went to work as a staff photographer for ...

A block in downtown San Francisco has been renamed for acclaimed photojournalist Joe Rosenthal ... every day photographing the city where we all live, we all love,” he said.