Alfred Eisenstaedt

Alfred Eisenstaedt was a Germanborn American photographer and photojournalist. One of the most prolific photographers of the twentieth century, he began his career in preWorld War II Germany, and after moving to the U.S., achieved prominence as a staff photographer for Life Magazine which featured more than 90 of his pictures on its covers with over 2,500 photo stories published.

Eisenstaedt was born in Dirschau in West Prussia, Imperial Germany in 1898. His family moved to Berlin in 1906. Eisenstaedt was fascinated by photography from his youth and began taking pictures at agewhen he was given his first camera, an Eastman Kodak Folding Camera with roll film. He later served in the German Armys artillery during World War I, and was wounded in 1918. While working as a belt and button salesman in the 1920s in Weimar Germany, Eisenstaedt began taking photographs as a freelancer for the Pacific and Atlantic Photos Berlin office in 1928. The office was taken over by the Associated Press in 1931.

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