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...group gained national attention as well with a full-page spread in Life Magazine. Alfred Eisenstaedt, the photographer who snapped the iconic picture of a couple kissing on V-J Day, held a photo shoot of four Harvard students—two white, two black—dressed in Minuteman costumes at the locations of the first battles of the Revolutionary War. Pressman called it “the second shot heard ’round the world...
...only fitting that the magazine at which CARL MYDANS made his mark as a photographer was LIFE because life was what he brought to documentary photography. Like his colleagues Alfred Eisenstaedt and Margaret Bourke-White, Mydans, who died last week at 97, helped transform photojournalism from a parade of static head shots and ceremonious poses into a supple narrative...
...only fitting that the magazine at which CARL MYDANS made his mark as a photographer was LIFE because life was what he brought to documentary photography. Like his colleagues Alfred Eisenstaedt and Margaret Bourke-White, Mydans, who died last week at 97, helped transform photojournalism from a parade of static head shots and ceremonious poses into a supple narrative...
...century's iconic images, V-J day, Times Square, by the late LIFE photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt, has provoked endless speculation about its subjects' identities. In 1980 Edith Shain wrote to Eisenstaedt admitting to being the nurse. But who was the sailor? Last week in the Wall Street Journal the Rev. George Byron Koch of West Chicago, Illinois, recounted the claim of his parishioner, Jim Reynolds, that he was the kisser--but that the photo was "a journalistic deception," posed and taken on V-E day, May 8, 1945, not V-J day, Aug. 14, 1945, when dress whites would have...
...Eisenstaedt was born in Dirschau, Prussia, a town now in Poland. A man with a lifelong taste for whatever was close-in, informal and unofficial, he came to photography at the very moment handheld cameras were at last making it possible to take pictures in the same unbuckled mood. Seen through Eisenstaedt's Leica, public events became less ceremonious, while ordinary people took on scale and emotional weight. After he fled Hitler, those were the qualities that recommended him to the editors of LIFE, where in 1936 he became one of its four original photographers. It was part...