Word: eisenstaedt
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Seeing Eisenstaedt's gallery of U.S. elders is inspiring. What a privilege it would be to meet the owners of those faces. One would like to know about their errors and omissions, foibles, loves and hates, and whether they were child delinquents or loved by their parents and happy in their youth...
...Eisenstaedt study of "Grandma" Reynolds, 97, who became a movie actress after...
...long life livable? And useful? In this week's cover story on Nonagenarian Amos Alonzo Stagg, Medicine Editor Gilbert Cant reports on the medical progress that has prolonged human life. To supplement the story, TIME presents a gallery of U.S. elders, photographed by LIFE'S Alfred Eisenstaedt (who is only 59). "Eisie," who has probably photographed more famous people than any other photographer, carried his autograph book as usual, got a full-page poem from Robert Frost and a fine line from Bernard Baruch: "Oh, to be 80 again." See MEDICINE, Adding Life to Years...
...small balding man, quiet and sharp-eyed as a young deer, moved among the trees, observing and pausing to focus his Leica. The click of the shutter among the bird sounds and leaf rustles was inaudible. Later Wilder wrote in the photographer's memento book: "To Alfred Eisenstaedt-not only a master photographer but a presence so tactful and soothing that I found myself working -really working-and working extra well while he went about his task...
Playwright Wilder was one of 13 U.S. intellectuals photographed by Eisenstaedt for this week's cover story on Jacques Barzun and American intellectuals, written by Education Editor Bruce Barton Jr. In pursuit of intellectuals, "Eisie," who has been a LIFE photographer since the first experimental, pre-publication issues, traveled up and down the U.S. from...