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Alfred Eisenstaedt
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Alfred Eisenstaedt has quite an amazing story primarily because his talent was good enough to make him popular not only once, but twice. Alfred Eisenstaedt was a citizen of Germany as his Jewish family moved there in 1906. Early on, even as a young adult Eisenstaedt was able to make a name for himself as a photographer. What started out as a freelancer in Germany as a photographer, quickly became a profession. He because quite well known for his skills, and was even able to take photographs of a meeting between Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini of Italy. As we all know, things got really bad for those of Jewish decent inside of Germany as Adolf rose to power. He was able to quickly escape out to New York City. He remained there for the rest of his life.
The good news for Eisenstaedt is that even though his citizenship at Germany was looking pretty useless for quite a while, his photography skills were not. In fact, he still did the same thing he did in Germany. Alfred Eisenstaedt was able to get his camera out and take photographs of some of the prominent events in our history and of several public figures.
During his recognition of his work, he was able to get a job with LIFE magazine. He had over 90 of his photographs displayed on the front page of the magazine over the course of his 36 year long career with the company. Without a doubt though, his most recognized work took place on V-J Day, which was the day recognized for Germany declaring defeat in World War II. He went out onto Times Square armed with his camera and was able to photograph a sailor kissing a girl as people were celebrating. It showed the excitement and enthusiasm that the entire country had, including our soldiers, for winning the war. Unfortunate for those who were actually photographed, Alfred Eisenstaedt was never able to determine who was actually in the picture as he took too many photographs of too many people on that day to get the names of everyone photographed. This photograph just happened to rise to fame.
Unfortunately for the photography industry, Alfred Eisenstaedt passed away on August 24, 1995 at the age of 96.
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