Eisenstaedt on Eisenstaedt: A Self-Portrait
Alfred Eisenstaedt (Signed)
Peter Adam (Text)


Description: New York: Abbeville Press, 1985, Stated First Edition; Signed, Inscribed "with every good wish / from one photographer / to another" and Dated (Feb. 1988) by Eisenstaedt. (The book was signed in person in the Chicago photography gallery representing the Artist). A comprehensive monograph of the master photographer's images of politicians, scientists, musicians, dancers, children and everyday street people. Importantly, it includes Eisenstaedt's comments on his career and the images that became icons of our twentieth century experience. 120 pages, printed in Italy with full page duotone plates, 8.5 x 0.75 x 11 inches.

Using nothing fancier than available light, a 35-millimeter Leica camera and a superb eye for entrancing storytelling moments, Alfred Eisenstaedt produced some of the most memorable images of the 20th century. He took informal, often incisive portraits of the famous, the infamous and the unknown.

Condition: Very Good tight and bright hardcover with previous owner's darkened seal and embossed stamp and some damp staining to the cover top corners not affecting the pages; in a Near Fine price-unclipped Dust Jacket with some light wear and sunning on the outer edges; inside the pictures are crisp, beautiful and clean with a paper clip crease to the edge of page 75 well above the plate of "on VJ Day". 

Additional Information: Alfred Eisenstaedt (1898 - 1995) 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. After first settling in New York City in 1935, Eisenstaedt lived in Jackson Heights, Queens, New York, for the rest of his life. Until shortly before his death, he would walk daily from his home to his Life office on the Avenue of the Americas and 51st Street. He died in his bed at midnight at his beloved Menemsha Inn cottage known as the "Pilot House" at age 96.

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