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...Among the emigres, mostly Jewish, who fled to these shores to escape him were designers, filmmakers and composers who would sound a new note in the American arts, one that kept ringing long after the war ended -- names like Mies van der Rohe, Billy Wilder and Arnold Schoenberg. Alfred Eisenstaedt was among them. When he set down in New York City in 1935, Eisenstaedt, "Eisie" to his friends, brought with him a loose-limbed working method that would eventually set the tone for all of American photojournalism. In the process, he would make pictures that are prize keepsakes...
...airborne pass over the Falklands. Last week another Sygma photographer and some television cameramen gave it a go by chartering a small private plane. The idea was daring, the result predictable: the plane was fired upon by the Argentines. A prudent and hasty retreat followed. As Master Photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt once said, "If you are a reporter, you can be 500 miles behind the line. But a photographer has to be there." Getting there has proved to be quite a problem...
...Battle of the Budget. A photographer, on other hand, must be in the heat of the action, whether it is a or a natural disaster- or a budget meeting. "If you are a reporter you can be behind the front line and still get your job done," says Alfred Eisenstaedt, who was one of the ornaments of LIFE's golden era. "But a photographer has to be right there...
...Alfred Eisenstaedt, photographer, on working with Sophia Loren: "I click with...
...LIFE's editors were never content with mere news. Early in the magazine's history, Alfred Eisenstaedt helped establish a new art form: the photo essay. Those essays are now acknowledged as masterpieces of their genre: W. Eugene Smith's study of life and death in a Spanish village, Gordon Parks' unflinching closeups of a slum family in Rio de Janeiro, Leonard McCombe's portrait of the career girl...