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Alfred Eisenstaedt
(From Wikipedia, the
free encyclopedia)
Alfred
Eisenstaedt (December 6, 1898 – August 24, 1995) was a German American
photographer and photojournalist. He is renowned for his candid
photographs, frequently made using a 35mm Leica M3 rangefinder camera. He
is best remembered for his photograph capturing the celebration of V-J
Day.Eisenstaedt was born into a Jewish family in Dirschau (Tczew) in West
Prussia, Imperial Germany. His family moved to Berlin in 1906. Eisenstaedt
served in the German Army's artillery during World War I, being wounded on
April 9, 1918. While working as a belt and button salesmen in 1920s Weimar
Germany, Eisenstaedt began taking photographs as a freelancer for the
Berliner Tageblatt.Eisenstaedt was successful enough to become a full-time
photographer in 1929. Four years later he photographed a meeting between
Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini in Italy. Other notable pictures taken
by Eisenstaedt in his early career include a waiter ice skating in St.
Moritz in 1932 and Joseph Goebbels at the League of Nations in Geneva in
1933. Although initially friendly, Goebbels scowled for the photograph
when he learned that Eisenstaedt was Jewish.
Because of oppression in Hitler's Nazi Germany, Eisenstaedt emigrated to
the United States in 1935, where he lived in Jackson Heights, Queens, New
York, for the rest of his life. He worked as a photographer for Life
magazine from 1936 to 1972. His photos of news events and celebrities,
such as Sophia Loren and Ernest Hemingway, appeared on more than 86 Life
covers.Eisenstaedt, known as "Eisie" to his close friends, enjoyed his
annual August vacations on the island of Martha's Vineyard for 50 years.
When on assignment in the Galapagos Islands,[vague] Eisenstaedt left the
Galapagos prior to the assignment's completion so he could arrive on time
for his Vineyard vacation in the Menemsha area of the town of
Chilmark.[citation needed] During his Vineyard summers, he would conduct
photographic "experiments," by working with various lenses, filters, and
prisms, but always working with natural light. Eisenstaedt was fond of
Martha's Vineyard's photogenic lighthouses, and was the focus of
lighthouse fund raisers for the Vineyard Environmental Research Institute
(VERI), the lease-holder of the lighthouses. One fund raiser was titled "Eisenstaedt
Day" and was an international event. The last Eisenstaedt lighthouse
fundraiser was held in August 1995, the month of his death on Martha's
Vineyard.
Eisenstaedt's last photographs were of President Bill Clinton with wife,
Hillary, and daughter, Chelsea, on August 1993, at the Granary Gallery in
West Tisbury on Martha's Vineyard. This historic "private" photo-session
took place in a fenced-in courtyard protected by the Secret Service for
over one hour, and was fully documented by William E. Marks. Marks, who
took hundreds of photographs of Eisenstaedt in every situation imaginable
for over ten years,[citation needed] also photographed Eisenstaedt signing
his famous V-J Day photograph on the morning of his passing.
Eisenstaedt died in his bed at midnight in his beloved Menemsha Inn
cottage known as the "Pilot House".
His death was attended by his sister-in-law, Lucille (Lulu) Kaye, and his
close friend, publisher/author William E. Marks.
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Alfred Eisenstaedt and
Marilyn Monroe, Hollywood, 1953
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V.J. Day Times Square
1945
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Children at Puppet Theatre
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Marilyn Monroe with
husband Joe DiMaggio
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Premiere at La Scala, Milan," 1933.
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Ice Skating Waiter, St.
Moritz," 1932
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Monks Along the River Arno, Florence," 1935
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Ballet star Mikhail
Baryshnikov posed for this 1980 picture.
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Dr. Joseph Goebbels, Hitler's Minister of Culture and Propaganda,
at the League of Nations, Geneva, 1933.
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Winston Churchhill gives the victory sign at a political rally, Liverpool,
1951.
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Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini meet for the first time, Venice 1934.
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Mussolini gives a speech from a balcony in Piazza San Marco, Venice, 1934
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A mother and her child
in the bombed landscape of Hiroshima, Japan, 1946.
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Atomic scientists
Albert Einstein and J. Robert Oppenheimer
compare notes at the Princeton Institute for Advanced Study, 1947.
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Albert Einstein
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Repairing the Hull of
the "Graf Zeppelin" during the flight over the Atlantic, 1934.
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Waiters watching Sonya
Henie skate, St. Moritz, 1932
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Marilyn Monroe,
1953
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Marilyn Monroe in 1953
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Marlene Dietrich, Berlin, 1928
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Dancers pause in the
window of their dancing room at the
Balanchine School of the American Ballet Theatre, New York City, 1936.
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Nurses at Roosevelt
Hospital, New York City, 1937.
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Hazing at West Point,
1936.
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President John F.
Kennedy in the Oval Office, 1961
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Lonny Fair and family,
1935
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A soldier's feet, Ethiopia, 1935.
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Trees in Snow, St.
Moritz Switzerland, 1947.
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The famous Clock in
the old Pennsylvania Station, New York City, 1943.
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Sophia Loren in
character for the movie "Marriage Italian Style," Rome, 1964.
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Ernest Hemingway, 1952
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John F. Kennedy and
his daughter, Caroline, at home in Hyannisport, Massachusetts, 1960
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Mrs. Kennedy and
Caroline, painting on their canvases in Hyannis Port, 1961
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Robert Frost at his
desk, Ripton, Vermont, 1955
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George Bernard Shaw at
his home in London, 1932
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Katherine Hepburn, New
York City, 1938
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J. Robert Oppenheimer
in a porkpie hat, Princeton, New Jersey, 1947
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Bette Davis, 1938
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Artist Augustus John
completeing a portrait in his studio in Hampshire, England, 1951
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T.S. Eliot in his
office at his publishers, Faber and Faber, London, 1951
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Thomas Hart Benton with a
self-portrait, 1970.
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Clark Gable and Jeanette McDonald on the set of "San Francisco," 1936
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Violinist Nathan
Milstein, pianist Vladimer Horowitz, and cellist Gregor Piatigorsky
rest backstage during the intermission of a concert at the Berlin
Philharmonic, Berlin 1932
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Marlene Dietrich, Anna
May Wong, Leni Riefenstahl, Berlin, 1928
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Menemsha Harbor,
1969
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Gay Head Lighthouse, 1967
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Kathy Eisenstaedt at Zack's Cliffs, 1960
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Sunflowers, 1968
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Red Cosmos, 1972
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Eldridge's Fish
Market, February 1952
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Giant Oak Tree, North
Tisbury, 1969
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Sophia Loren and
Alfred Eisenstaedt, 1969
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