“People don’t take me too seriously with my little camera,” he once suggested. The couple were recreating the famous photo from the Victory over Japan day taken in Times Square by Alfred Eisenstaedt on August 24, 1945. Eisenstaedt was among those Europeans who pioneered the use of the 35-millimeter camera in photojournalism as they brought their knowledge to American. Eisenstaedt was the least austere of modernists. A man dressed as a sailor pretends to kiss a woman dressed in white during the 2017 Veterans Day parade through New Yorks Fifith Avenue. His La Scala picture is included in a new exhibition devoted to modernism in photography since the first world war. Eisenstaedt was born in Dirschau (Tczew) in West Prussia, Imperial Germany in 1898. He is best known for his photograph of the V-J Day celebration and for his candid photographs, frequently made using a 35mm Leica camera. Among the 2,500 photo stories he published in L ife in the next four decades was perhaps the most iconic image of the end of war: a US sailor kissing a young nurse in Times Square on VJ Day.Įisenstaedt died in 1995, aged 96. Alfred Eisenstaedt (Decem August 24, 1995) was a German-born American photographer and photojournalist. Having photographed Hitler and Goebbels (the latter scowled into Eisenstaedt’s lens on discovering he was a Jew) he had left Berlin for the US in 1935. The most famous picture that Alfred Eisenstaedt ever took is the picture of a sailor kissing a nurse entitled V-J Day, Times Square, 1945. Life featured more than 90 of his pictures on its covers, and more than 2,500 of his photo stories were published. He began his career in Germany prior to World War II but achieved prominence as a staff photographer for Life magazine after moving to the U.S.
A couple of years later, this was one of the images that persuaded a new magazine called L ife, in New York, to take on the German-born Eisenstaedt as one of its first four staff photographers. Alfred Eisenstaedt Alle Beiträge Fotoikone Der 'küssende Seemann' vom Times Square ist tot Es ist eines der berühmtesten Bilder der Welt: 1945 küsste der Matrose George Mendonsa eine ihm. In 1954 Eisenstaedt held his first solo exhibition in New York and went on to win numerous awards, including the National Medal of the Arts award in 1989. Alfred Eisenstaedt (Decem August 23, 1995) was a German-born American photographer and photojournalist.
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