Unit 208 ,theme 2 -Alfred Eisenstaedt- People and Portraits

Alfred Eisenstaedt was a German American photographer and a photojournalist born in Germany in 1898 ,renown for his candid photos .Eisenstaedt used various models of 35mm leica range finder cameras and is best known foe his image of celebration of V J day . Alfred was a successful full time  photographer by 1929. A number of years later he found himself photographing Hitler and Mussolini in Italy and his other noteable pictures include ice skater in St Moritz and Joseph Goebbels at the League of Nations (1933 ), Goebbels is said to have scowled in his photograph when Eisenstaedt told him he was Jewish.
In 1933 Alfred moved to the USA because of Hitler's oppression in Germany ,Alfred stayed in New York  the rest of his life ,
Eisenstaedt worked for LIFE magazine from 1936 -1972 where he photographed events and celebrities like Sophia Loren ,Earnest Hemingway and Dagmar .
Eisenstaedt enjoyed annual holiday on the Island of Martha's vineyard ,Alfred would conduct photographic experiments with various filters ,lens and prisms always working with natural light . Alfred was awarded a National Medal of Arts in 1989 . Eisenstaedt lasts photos were of president Bill Clinton  
and his family on the Island in 1993 .
 My reasons for choosing this photographer is it relates to my theme 208 people and portraits, Alfred portrays the reality of  the people ,happiness ,the violinist deep in thought , the ice skater concentrating on his footings ,the amount of people that went to the theater in those time all with great composition and a story to tell .