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Eisenstaedt, Alfred

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Personal name headingEisenstaedt, Alfred
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Variant(s)Eisie
Associated countryGermany United States
Birth date18981206
Death date19950824
Place of birthTczew (Poland)
Place of deathOak Bluffs (Mass.)
Profession or occupationPhotographers Photojournalists
Found inWitness to our time, 1966.
Washington post, 8/25/95: p. C6 (Alfred Eisenstaedt; photojournalist; d. Aug. 24, 1995; known as Eisie to colleagues)
Wikipedia, September 3, 2013 (Alfred Eisenstaedt; b. December 6, 1898, Dirschau (Tczew), West Prussia, Imperial Germany, d. August 24, 1995, Oak Bluffs, Mass.; German-born American photographer and photojournalist. He began his career in pre-World 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. Among his most famous cover photographs was the V-J Day celebration in New York City of "an exuberant American sailor kissing a nurse in a dancelike dip)
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