In 1935, Fascist Italy's impending invasion of Ethiopia led to a burst of international interest in Ethiopia. Although initially friendly, Goebbels scowled at Eisenstaedt when he took the photograph, after learning that Eisenstaedt was Jewish. Moritz in 1932 and Joseph Goebbels at the League of Nations in Geneva in 1933. Other notable early pictures by Eisenstaedt include his depiction of a waiter at the ice rink of the Grand Hotel in St. Four years later he photographed the famous first meeting between Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini in Italy. The office was taken over by the Associated Press in 1931.Įisenstaedt became a full-time photographer in 1929 when he was hired by the Associated Press office in Germany, and within a year he was described as a "photographer extraordinaire." He also worked for Illustrierte Zeitung, published by Ullstein Verlag, then the world's largest publishing house. While working as a belt and button salesman in the 1920s in Weimar Germany, Eisenstaedt began taking photographs as a freelancer for the Pacific and Atlantic Photos' Berlin office in 1928. He later served in the German Army's artillery during World War I and was wounded in 1918. Eisenstaedt was fascinated by photography from his youth and began taking pictures at age 11 when he was given his first camera, an Eastman Kodak Folding Camera with roll film. His family was Jewish and moved to Berlin in 1906. He was "renowned for his ability to capture memorable images of important people in the news" and for his candid photographs taken with a small 35mm Leica camera, typically with natural lighting.Įisenstaedt was born in Dirschau (Tczew) in West Prussia, Imperial Germany in 1898.
Life featured more than 90 of his pictures on its covers, and more than 2,500 of his photo stories were published.Īmong his most famous cover photographs was V-J Day in Times Square, taken during the V-J Day celebration in New York City, showing an American sailor kissing a nurse in a "dancelike dip" which "summed up the euphoria many Americans felt as the war came to a close", in the words of his obituary. 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. Liz Ronk edited this gallery for Eisenstaedt (Decem– August 23, 1995) was a German-born American photographer and photojournalist. And Shrout’s images of the man behind that photo remind us that, even if a photojournalist is meant to be an impartial witness to history, he is also a part of the history he is witnessing. Shrout’s images of a host of other anonymous embraces help put that famous kiss in context. In another, he and that women walk toward Shrout, bright smiles on their faces. In one photo, Eisenstaedt kisses a reporter, his camera slung over his shoulder, in a pose not unlike that of the famous kiss he photographed that day. While Shrout’s photos have much in common with Eisenstaedt’s-kisses abounded that day-they capture one thing that Eisenstaedt couldn’t easily have captured: images of Eisenstaedt himself. Shrout, brought a different set of negatives back to the office that day, with his own perspective on the people’s response to peace. It has also in recent years received a sort of #metoo infamy, after the woman in the photo said that the kiss was nonconsensual.īut “The Kiss” was not the only photograph taken that day, nor was Eisenstaedt the only photographer navigating the boisterous New York City festivities. Often called “The Kiss,” it became the iconic image of celebration at war’s end, a black-and-white bookend separating an era of darkness from the beginning of a time of peace. Alfred Eisenstaedt’s photograph of a sailor kissing a woman in Times Square, after news broke of the Japanese surrender in World War II, has lived a storied life since it was taken on August 15, 1945.
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