ALFRED EISENSTAEDT (1898-1995)

“Another picture I hope to be remembered by is this one of the drum major rehearsing at the University of Michigan. It was early in the morning and I saw a little boy running after him and all the faculty children on the playing field ran after the boy and I ran after them. This is a completely spontaneous, unstaged picture."

“…you can hold a Rolleiflex without raising it to your eye; so they didn't see me taking the pictures I just kept motionless like a statue. They never saw me clicking away. For the kind of photography I do, one has to be very unobtrusive and to blend in with the crowd."

"My style hasn't changed much in all these sixty years. I still use, most of the time, existing light and try not to push people around. I have to be as much a diplomat as a photographer. People often don't take me seriously because I carry so little equipment and make so little fuss. When I married in 1949, my wife asked me. 'But where are your real cameras?' I never carried a lot of equipment. My motto has always been, 'Keep it simple.'"


Ballerinas

Uniformed Drum Major For the University of Michigan Marching Band Practicing His High Kicking Prance

Wide Range of Facial Expressions on Children at Puppet Show the Moment the Dragon is Slain. Paris.

Clock In Pennsylvania Station