Source
Alfred Eisenstaedt — International Center of Photography
Citation
International Center of Photography. “Alfred Eisenstaedt.” Constituent page in the ICP archive-browse index. Accessed 2026-05-06. https://www.icp.org/browse/archive/constituents/alfred-eisenstaedt
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Tier-1 institutional archive page for Alfred Eisenstaedt at ICP. Reference for his biographical anchor (born Dirschau 1898; died 1995; one of the original four LIFE staff photographers, 1936). Eisenstaedt has seven plates in The Family of Man per strict-match grep against data/photographs.csv (2026-05-06): photo-0068 (Section 9 Children A), photo-0105 (Section 12 Fathers and Sons), photo-0284 (Section 25 Relationships), photo-0324, photo-0326, photo-0327, and photo-0443.
Key excerpts / pages
Verbatim quotations from the page fetched 2026-05-06:
- “Born in Dirschau (now Poland), Alfred Eisenstaedt studied at the University of Berlin and served in the German army during World War I.”
- “In 1929, he received his first assignment that would launch his professional career — the Nobel Prize ceremony in Stockholm.”
- “In 1935, he came to the United States, where he freelanced for Harper’s Bazaar, Vogue, Town and Country, and other publications.”
- “In 1936, Henry Luce hired him, along with Margaret Bourke-White, Peter Stackpole, and Thomas McAvoy as one of four staff photographers for the new LIFE magazine.”
- “Eisenstaedt remained at LIFE for the next 40 years and was active as a photojournalist into his eighties.”
- The page summarizes him as “Born in Dirschau (now Poland)” and lists 1898 as the birth year and 1995 as the death year.
- Honored with the ICP Infinity Master of Photography Award in 1988 (per the ICP page).
Notes
- Perspective: institutional / archival.
- The ICP page’s birth-year (1898) and death-year (1995) match the dates carried into
pher-alfred-eisenstaedt. Specific birth and death day-month dates (December 6, 1898 / August 23, 1995) are NOT stated on this ICP page and were not verified from this fetch — see the Wikipedia pointer (src-wikipedia-eisenstaedt-pointer) and any future fetch of a NYT obituary for promotion. - The “now Poland” parenthetical reflects the post-1945 sovereignty of Tczew (German Dirschau) — Eisenstaedt was born in 1898 in West Prussia, German Empire.
- Verified against fetched source on 2026-05-06.