![]() His filing system was perhaps inefficiently simple: the boxes marked only "Germany," "Great Americans," "Great Englishmen," "Musicians," and "Miscellaneous." He had no trouble locating pictures, however. His five-foot-four frame maneuvered agilely in an office crammed with books and papers and tidy yellow cardboard boxes of prints. His days were filled supervising the printing of his photographs for the next exhibit or book project. ![]() ![]() Looking natty in suspenders and often a bow-tie, he answered letters and phone calls long before others had arrived. His final working days would start at nine in the morning when his sister-in-law, LuLu Kaye, escorted him the five blocks from his apartment to the Time and Life Building. Until the last years of his life he was still shooting and adding to an inventory that included hundreds of thousands of negatives. Alfred Eisenstaedt, the man behind the camera that fixed itself on some of the most enduring images of modern history, died this morning at age 96. He was the preeminent photojournalist of his time-a time that spans eight decades of the twentieth century. ![]() Most importantly, his photographs are a testimony to events and people who shaped the contemporary world.Įisenstaedt’s most famous image VJ Day (a sailor kissing a nurse in Times Square, pictured on the front of this release) is known to millions of people across the world, although few could name the man who took this photograph in 1945. In a photographic career spanning sixty years Eisenstaedt was the first to consistently practice candid-camera photography, and in his own words, “photographed more people than any other photographer.” His photographs have featured on the front cover of LIFE magazine 92 times and he travelled the world on more than 2500 assignments. We are delighted to announce an exhibition of vintage photographs by Alfred Eisenstaedt - “the father of photojournalism”. Alfred Eisenstaedt - The father of photojournalism ![]()
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