3.
Became a full-time
photographer in 1929
Notable early photos:
Hitler and Mussolini
Waiter on Ice Skates
Joseph Goebbels
In London, 1932 (age 34)
6. “In 1933, I traveled to Lausanne and
Geneva for the fifteenth session of the
League of Nations. There, sitting in the
hotel garden, was Dr. Joseph Goebbels,
Hitler’s minister of propaganda. He
smiles, but not at me. He was looking at
someone to my left…. Suddenly he
spotted me and I snapped him. His
expression changed. Here are the eyes of
hate. Was I an enemy? Behind him is his
private secretary, Walter Naumann, with
the goatee, and Hitler’s interpreter, Dr.
Paul Schmidt…. I have been asked how I
felt photographing these men. Naturally,
not so good, but when I have a camera in
my hand I know no fear.”
– Alfred Eisenstadt
7.
Brooklyn, New York
One of the first four staff photographers for
LIFE magazine (1936-72)
The others were Margaret Bourke-White, Thomas
McAvoy and Peter Stackpole
Stayed on staff until the magazine closed in
1972
90 covers
8.
9. “Once she achieved a certain level
of fame, gossip columnists began
writing about Cynthia as if she were
a living, breathing socialite. When
partygoers tried to engage the
mannequin in conversation, Gaba
begged off by claiming she was
suffering from a touch of
laryngitis.”
16. VJ day, 1945
Eisenstaedt saw a sailor running
around Times Square trying to grab
any girl in sight…and thus an iconic
photo was snapped
17. The drum major for the University of Michigan
marching band rehearses as admiring children fall in
line, 1950.
“Like so many of Alfred Eisenstaedt’s most famous photographs, this one flirts with
sentimentality — but avoids that ignoble fate by virtue of its energy, and its immediacy. This
is not a depiction of manufactured emotion, but a masterfully framed instant of authentic,
explosive spirit.”
-Ben Cosgrove,Editor of LIFE.com
18.
PBS Documentary
The “quintessential” Life photographer –
NYTimes obituary
Awards/honors:
Presidential Medal of Arts
Infinity Master of Photography Award, given by
the International Center of Photography
1951 "Photographer of the Year" by the
Encyclopedia Britannica and the University of
Missouri School of Journalism