ALFRED EISENSTAEDT (1898–1995)
ALFRED EISENSTAEDT (1898–1995) | ‘Fall, Shadows Grow Longer’, Czechoslovakia 1927 | Gelatin silver print, printed 1980s | 26 x 34 cm | Signed by the photographer in ink in the margin, his “PHOTO BY ALFRED EISENSTAEDT” stamp and his annotations reading “This picture of a tennis player in Johannisbach, Bohemia, started my career, 1927” by Eisenstaedt in ink on the reverse PROVENANCE Eisenstaedt Family Estate LITERATURE The Eye of Eisenstaedt, London 1969, p. 13. While on holiday in Johannisbach, today Luková, Eisenstaedt took this photograph, which was also his first picture to be published. He sold it for $3 to the German weekly Der Weltspiegel. The experience encouraged him, and shortly afterwards, in 1928 he became a freelance photographer of The Associated Press.
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ALFRED EISENSTAEDT (1898–1995) | ‘Fall, Shadows Grow Longer’, Czechoslovakia 1927 | Gelatin silver print, printed 1980s | 26 x 34 cm | Signed by the photographer in ink in the margin, his “PHOTO BY ALFRED EISENSTAEDT” stamp and his annotations reading “This picture of a tennis player in Johannisbach, Bohemia, started my career, 1927” by Eisenstaedt in ink on the reverse PROVENANCE Eisenstaedt Family Estate LITERATURE The Eye of Eisenstaedt, London 1969, p. 13. While on holiday in Johannisbach, today Luková, Eisenstaedt took this photograph, which was also his first picture to be published. He sold it for $3 to the German weekly Der Weltspiegel. The experience encouraged him, and shortly afterwards, in 1928 he became a freelance photographer of The Associated Press.
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