Alfred Eisenstaedt - Witness to Our Time [PDF Scan]

Witness to Our Time
by Alfred Eisenstaedt (Author)

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File format: PDF Scan
File Size: 54.5 MB
Publication Date: September 1966



Witness to Our Time is a large-format collection of photographs and personal notes by famed Life magazine photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt. Eisie was with Life from the beginning, actually prior to the beginning; and contributed some 1,728 picture stories altogether. He helped define modern photojournalism, as much as Gene Smith, Capa, or Margaret Bourke-White. What’s so interesting, to me, about Eisenstaedt’s career is that he shot everybody & everything for most of the 20th century – but really didn’t score any supremely iconic images. Nor did he have the flamboyant personality of his early colleagues. Instead, he showed up, worked hard, and as this collection shows, he delivered good, solid, straight images of historic events, personalities great & small, and places far & near. He was like a solo photographer on a small town newspaper who had to shoot it all, only Eisie’s beat was the world. And here’s a bit of his advice: “Always I tried to keep in mind the most important thing about photographing people: it is not clicking the shutter that counts, it is clicking with the subject.” (p. 190)



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