LC control no. | n 80060752 |
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Descriptive conventions | rda |
Personal name heading | Eisenstaedt, Alfred |
Variant(s) | Eisie |
Associated country | Germany United States |
Birth date | 18981206 |
Death date | 19950824 |
Place of birth | Tczew (Poland) |
Place of death | Oak Bluffs (Mass.) |
Profession or occupation | Photographers Photojournalists |
Found in | Witness 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) <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Eisenstaedt> |