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...JOHN McPHEE and ALFRED EISENSTAEDT...
...Alfred Eisenstaedt's photographs are fine, but it is unfortunate he did not cover the same Wimbledon year that McPhee describes...
...others saw only grime, Bourke-White saw beauty; her camera could find drama and action in a factory. All the major pictures in FORTUNE'S first issue were by Bourke-White, and she was one of the four photographers on LIFE'S original masthead (the others: Alfred Eisenstaedt, Peter Stackpole, Tom McAvoy). She remained there until her retirement...
...important meetings, a woman is not as likely to be thrown out as a man." Demanding and visionary, in 1954 she badgered Henry Luce into promising that she would be LIFE'S first photographer to go to the moon. "Even at the peak of her career," recalled Eisenstaedt, "she was willing and eager. She would get up at daybreak to photograph a bread crumb if necessary...
...frugality are trademarks of Cartier-Bresson. He works with the same Leica for years before reluctantly replacing it, and seldom employs filters or anything other than the standard 50-mm. lens. He never uses artificial lighting, never crops a negative for emphasis or effect. Says LIFE Photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt, himself a master: "In the area of reportage, he is definitely without peer...