The Unconditional Surrender statue on San Diego's Embarcadero is a 25-foot cast of the 1945 Alfred Eisenstaedt photograph of a sailor kissing a nurse in Times Square at the end of World War II. The sculpture by J. Seward Johnson has been installed permanently since 2007, and has become the city's most reliably photographed landmark despite being relatively recent.
The statue stands on the harbour walk between the USS Midway museum and the Convention Center, with the bay behind it and the downtown skyline overhead. The scale is the point: at 25 feet the figures are legible from the water and from the bridge approach, and the composition holds at any distance. At eye level, the detail is quite fine.
A separate but identical cast of the same sculpture stands in Sarasota, Florida. San Diego's relationship to the image is more direct: the photograph was taken in New York, but the sailor in the photo may have been stationed here, and the city's naval history gives the subject matter local weight.