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Alfred Eisenstaedt
Alfred Eisenstaedt was a German-born American photographer and photojournalist. He began his career in Germany prior to World War II but achieved prominence as a staff photographer for Life magazine after moving to the U.S. Life featured more than 90 of his pictures on its covers, and more than 2,500 of his photo stories were published.
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business · German-born American photojournalist (1898–1995) · photographer · photojournalist · journalist · entrepreneur · reporter · also Alfred Eisenstaedt, Eisie, Alfred Eisenstadt, Alfred Eisenstaett, Eisenstaedt
Born 6 December 1898 · Died 23 August 1995 · Q62081
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2020· 1 entry
WDR: ZeitZeichen : 23.08.1995 - Todestag von Alfred Eisenstaedt
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2019· 1 entry
Wall Street Journal: ‘Alfred Eisenstaedt: Life and Legacy’ Review: Capturing the Essential Emotion
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2015· 1 entry
Couriermail: Photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt captured emotional war farewells
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2014· 1 entry
Harper's Bazaar: A Legacy Through Photographs: Alfred Eisenstaedt
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2010· 1 entry
Newsweek: Alfred Eisenstaedt 1898-1995
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1995· 1 entry
Died 1995-08-23.
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1950· 1 entry
“The Laws of Science and the Laws of Ethics”
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1949· 1 entry
“Einstein's Reply to Criticisms”
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1944· 1 entry
Life described him as the "dean of today's miniature-camera experts
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1940· 1 entry
“The Fundamentals of Theoretical Physics,”
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1935· 4 entries
Eisenstaedt lived in Jackson Heights, Queens (NYC) for the rest of his life
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And settled in New York, where he subsequently became a naturalized citizen, and joined fellow Associated Press émigrés Leon Daniel and Celia Kutschuk in their PIX Publishing photo agency founded that year
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“Greatest Living Mathematician Failed in Mathematics”
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Fascist Italy's impending invasion of Ethiopia led to a burst of international interest in Ethiopia
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1934· 3 entries
“Europe’s Danger—Europe’s Hope”
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“Notes on the Origin of the General Theory of Relativity”
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“On the Method of Theoretical Physics”
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1932· 2 entries
And Joseph Goebbels at the League of Nations in Geneva in 1933
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“of the skating headwaiter. To be sure the picture was sharp, I put a chair on the ice and asked the waiter to skate by it. I had a Miroflex camera and focused on the chair.”
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1929· 1 entry
When he was hired by the Associated Press office in Germany, and within a year he was described as a "photographer extraordinaire
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1928· 1 entry
As a freelancer for the Pacific and Atlantic Photos' Berlin office, which was taken over by the Associated Press in 1931
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1926· 1 entry
“In continuation of Pope on Newton”
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1921· 1 entry
“My First Impression of the U.S.A.”
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1898· 1 entry
Born 1898-12-06.
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