Eisenstaedt

The photo, by Alfred Eisenstaedt, is called “V-J Day in Times Square” but is known to most people simply as “The Kiss.”

In 1959, Truman Capote skated at Rockefeller Center, photographed by the eminent photojournalist Alfred Eisenstaedt.

The story was, according to all involved, a triumph for both Eisenstaedt and Post.

According to family lore, the photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt proclaimed them the handsomest couple in New York.

Ms. Hesse confused that kind of romantic portrait art with Alfred Eisenstaedt’s photo.