Alfred Eisenstaedt's Photography

Alfred Eisenstaedt (1898 – 1995) was a German-born American photographer and photojournalist. 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.

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Marilyn Monroe, 1953.

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Students at New Trier High School in 1950. See more color photographs here…

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Israel, 1955.

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Working girls Mary Toynton and Kay Lindsay playing ring toos game on the beach while vacationing at The Cloister during off-season.

Sea Island, GA, US. 1941.

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Broadway, Jackson Hole, Wyoming. Jackson, WY, US. 1948.

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Author Ernest Hemingway at a Cuban fishing village like the one in his book "The Old Man and the Sea". Cuba.

August 1952.

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Sophia Loren in the pool with colorful beach balls. Rome, Italy.

June 1964.

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Shoeless teenage couples dancing in HS gym next to bleacher where rows of their shoes have been checked to avoid marring the facility's hardwood floors during a Sock Hop, the latest craze to sweep the nation's youth.

Oklahoma City, OK, US. December 6, 1946.

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Parisians at a sidewalk cafe. Paris, France. 1963.

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Electricity emitted from machine at MIT, Boston, MA.

Boston, MA, US. May 1949.

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It is more important to click with people than to click the shutter

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The important thing is not the camera but the eye.

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Parisian beatniks hanging out on bank of the Seine. Paris, France. 1963.

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6-year-old girl taking care of her younger brother. Italy. 1947.

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Young nuns on way to mass. Turin, Italy. 1934.

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Christmas Shopping For $1,000,000 Furs.

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Happy birthday to Alfred Eisenstaedt (December 6, 1898 – August 24, 1995)