Already well-known as a generous philanthropist, businesswoman, and social figure, Post was featured. The common denominator of all these goodbyes is sadness and tenderness, and complete oblivion for the moment to anything but their own individual heartaches. When he photographed her for the Novemissue of LIFE Magazine, Alfred Eisenstaedt cemented Marjorie Merriweather Post’s place among the most notable people of the twentieth century. Or if the wait is long they may just stand quietly, not saying anything. Now and then the boy will take her face between his hands and speak reassuringly. Another fits her head into the curve of his cheek while tears fall onto his coat.
Sometimes the girl stands with arms around the boys’ waist, hands tightly clasped behind. They stand in front of the gates leading to the trains, deep in each other’s arms, not caring who sees or what they think.Įach goodbye is a drama complete in itself, which Eisenstaedt’s pictures movingly tell. In its Februissue (Valentine’s Day), in which many of these pictures appeared, here’s how LIFE magazine described the scenes: These young men, bidding their sweethearts farewell, faced the possibility that they might never return from the war. The exhibition is on view until July 14.The photos here, made by LIFE’s Alfred Eisenstaedt in April 1943 at the height of the Second World War, capture farewell kisses that are particularly fraught. The span between these decades is now regarded today as, “The Golden Age of Photojournalism.” There was a time where glowing-TV screens and the internet weren’t commonplace, so it was these Eisenstaedt’s photographs that were instrumental in transporting people from their homes to experience distinct people, places and culture, something they would otherwise not be able to visualize. The collection offers his unique gelatin silver prints of the naturalistic and intimate facial expresses made from a variety of his social subjects from the 1930s to the 1950s. Now, the San Diego Museum of Art in Balboa Park is offering a unique exhibition of Eisenstaedt’s work. Navy sailor grabbing and kissing a female stranger in a white dress, a photograph most San Diegans are familiar with, in reference to the 25-foot statue by Seward Johnson. His career with photographed ended when he passed, in 1995.Įisenstaedt is responsible for the most memorable photographs of the 20th century, including, V-J Day in Times Square, which portrays a U.S. After LIFE was shuttered, Eisenstaedt proceeded to take his photographs and received the ICP’s Infinity Master of Photography Award in 1988. Eisenstaedt shot photographs for LIFE from the day they debuted until they stopped publishing as a weekly in 1972.
In 1936, Henry Luce, who was called “the most influential private citizen in the America of his day” by American historian, Edwin Herzstein, hired Eisenstaedt and helped debut LIFE Magazine. Two years before World War II, Eisenstaedt was forced to flee Nazi-Germany to the United States where he freelanced for Harper’s Bazaar, Vogue, Town and Country, and other top-notch publications. His angles are favoring to his subjects, he does justice to photographs of Katherine Hepburn and Betty Davis, both from 1938. Eisenstaedt held expertise in capturing unique expressions off of his subjects. His portrait photographs are definitely the most compelling.
A staggering image, taken years before the second world war and also years before their names became a synonym for evil. It was then where he was qualified enough to photograph the notable first meeting between Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini in Italy. Within a year, he was described by the people as a “photographer extraordinaire,” which led him to be hired by Ullstein Verlag, the largest publishing house in the world at the time. He survived Adolf Hitler’s attack on the Jews to become one of the most renowned photographers of his time. By 1928, Eisenstaedt was working as a freelance photographer for the Pacific and Atlantic Picture Agency’s Berlin office, which was then taken over by the Associated Press in 1931. Alfred Eisenstaedt was a photographer of Jewish, German, and American descent. Injured by the war in 1918, he employed himself as a belt and button salesman in Weimar, Germany.
He studied at Humboldt University of Berlin and served in the German army during World War I. In 1906, his family moved out to Berlin where Eisenstaedt decided to dedicate the majority of his life to photojournalism. The exhibit focuses on the life and history of Alfred Eisenstaedt and celebrates his accomplishments through his photographs.Įisenstaedt was born Jewish in Dirschau, West Prussia, Imperial Germany (modern-day Poland) in 1898. Alfred Eisenstaedt, a man who carried his humble 35-mm Leica camera everywhere he would go, is now being commemorated at the San Diego Museum of Art’s new exhibition, “Alfred Eisenstaedt: Life and Legacy.” The Balboa Park museum is exhibiting a photographic assortment of over 350 of Eisenstaedt’s most significant photographs mostly from his work at LIFE Magazine.
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