Word: eisenstaedt
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...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...
...20th century image bank consists in good part--some of the best part, you might say--of what was put there by Alfred Eisenstaedt. When he died last week at 96, he left behind one of the great lyric troves of modern photography. An incomparable photojournalist, "Eisie'' helped to make LIFE an indispensable scrapbook of the national memory. And even before that, in the 1920s, when many people still believed cameras could only take dictation, he had figured out their potential for poetry...
...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...