Source
Alfred Eisenstaedt — LIFE archive
Citation
LIFE. “Alfred Eisenstaedt.” Institutional photographer archive page at life.com. Accessed 2026-05-06. https://www.life.com/photographer/alfred-eisenstaedt/
Relevance
Tier-3 institutional photographer-archive page at LIFE for Alfred Eisenstaedt (1898–1995), one of the original four staff photographers hired by Henry Luce in 1936. Eisenstaedt has seven plates in The Family of Man per strict-match grep against data/photographs.csv (2026-05-06): photo-0068, photo-0105, photo-0284, photo-0324, photo-0326, photo-0327, photo-0443.
Key excerpts / pages
Verbatim quotations from the page fetched 2026-05-06:
- Birth and death given as 1898–1995.
- Description of his V-J Day photograph in Times Square (1945): “I ran ahead of him because I had Leica cameras around my neck, focused from 10 feet to infinity” and noted he “snapped five times” to capture the spontaneous moment.
- Photography philosophy: “I see pictures all the time. I could stay for hours and watch a raindrop.”
Notes
- Perspective: institutional photographer-archive.
- The LIFE page does not state Eisenstaedt’s birthplace or exact day-month dates of birth/death — those remain unverified from this fetch and are recorded via the Wikipedia pointer (src-wikipedia-eisenstaedt-pointer, fetched 2026-05-06) at pointer tier.
- The 1898–1995 year range is corroborated independently by
src-icp-eisenstaedt-archive(fetched 2026-05-06). - URL stability caveat (per CREDIBILITY.md § URL stability): life.com is a commercial Meredith/Dotdash archive property, not a DOI / museum permalink / JSTOR / archive.org snapshot. Re-verification periodically recommended.
- Verified against fetched source on 2026-05-06.