The Ultimate Confrontation

The Ultimate Confrontation: The Flower and the Bayonet is a photograph of Jan Rose Kasmir (born in 1950), at that time an American high-school student.

Seventeen-year-old Kasmir was shown clasping a chrysanthemum and gazing at bayonet-wielding soldiers.

The photo was featured in the December 30, 1969 special edition of Look magazine under the title The Ultimate Confrontation: The Flower and the Bayonet.

Smithsonian magazine later called it "a gauzy juxtaposition of armed force and flower child innocence".

[3] She returned with her daughter to the United States in 2002, and resumed living on Hilton Head Island, South Carolina.