biography
| name: |
Eisenstaedt, Alfred
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pronunciation:
[iyznstat]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1898–1995)
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| biography:
| Photojournalist, born in Tczew, N Poland (formerly Dirschau, Germany). He started freelancing as a photojournalist in the 1920s, and emigrated to the USA in 1935, where he became one of the original photographers working on Life (1936–72). Voted Photographer of the Year in 1951, his worldwide assignments and telling photo essays made him one of the outstanding practitioners of the 20th-c. His publications include Witness to Our Time (1966), The Eye of Eisenstaedt (1969), and Photojournalism (1971). |
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