Jan Rose Kasmir
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Jan Rose Kasmir (born in 1950) is a former American high-school student who became known due to an iconic anti-war photograph taken by French photographer Marc Riboud.[1] Kasmir was photographed on 21 October 1967 while taking part with several thousand anti-war activists who had marched to The Pentagon to protest against America’s involvement in Vietnam. Seventeen-year-old Kasmir was shown clasping a daisy and gazing at bayonet-wielding soldiers. The photo was published world-wide and became a symbol of the flower power movement. Smithsonian Magazine later called it "a gauzy juxtaposition of armed force and flower child innocence".[2]
A similar image was taken the same day, by Bernie Boston, entitled Flower Power.
In London in February 2003, Riboud again photographed Kazmir protesting against the Iraq War where she carried a poster-size copy of the 1967 photograph.[2]
Kasmir became a massage therapist. In 2004, she was living in Aarhus, Denmark, with her Danish husband and their 12-year-old daughter.[2]
References [edit]
- ^ 1967 Marc Riboud, Magnum Photos
- ^ a b c Curry, Andrew (April 2004). "Flower Child". Smithsonian Magazine.
External links [edit]
- Kasmir Photo, by Marc Riboud, October 1967
