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alfred eisenstaedt
Life Before ‘Having It All’: Portrait of a Working Girl
By Eliza Berman
What Katharine Hepburn Wore When She Wasn’t Wearing Pants
By Eliza Berman
Celebrate National Nurses Week With a LIFE Cover Story on Nursing in the 1930s
By Eliza Berman
How To Throw a 1930s-Inspired Mint Julep Party for the Kentucky Derby
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See Photos of Children Celebrating Purim in the 1950s
As the Jewish holiday is celebrated around the world, here is a selection of never-published photos by Alfred Eisenstaedt
By Eliza Berman
March 5, 2015
Meet the Actress Who Performed the First Onscreen Orgasm
Eight decades before
Fifty Shades of Grey
, Hedy Lamarr shocked audiences around the world with a passionate performance of female sexuality
By Eliza Berman
February 11, 2015
Unforgettable Eisenstaedt: 22 Amazing Photos by a Master
Alfred Eisenstaedt (1898–1995), the man behind some of the most memorable pictures of the 20th century, was a professional photographer for almost 70 years. He started working in photography in Weimar Germany in the 1920s....
By Ben Cosgrove
November 3, 2014
Marilyn Monroe at Home: Color Portraits
LIFE.com presents color photos of the movie legend at her Hollywood home in 1953, when she was just 26 years old.
By Ben Cosgrove
October 26, 2014
Under a Mississippi Sun: Portraits of Depression-Era Sharecroppers
Alfred Eisenstaedt's remarkable photos of sharecroppers working their plots of soil on the Delta & Pine Land Co. plantation in Scott, Miss., in the midst of the Great Depression.
By Ben Cosgrove
October 23, 2014
Figures in a Wasteland: Mother and Child, Hiroshima, 1945
Alfred Eisenstaedt's picture of a mother and child in the wasteland of 1945 Hiroshima is not a political or a philosophical or an ideological photograph. It simply, quietly commands us to pay attention.
By Ben Cosgrove
October 5, 2014
Strangers to Reason: LIFE Inside a Psychiatric Hospital, 1938
Alfred Eisenstaedt's photos from Pilgrim State Hospital in the late 1930s blended clear-eyed reporting with an almost palpable compassion.
By Ben Cosgrove
September 30, 2014
Sophia Loren: Rare and Classic Portraits of a Film Legend
Photos -- many of which never ran in LIFE magazine -- of the great Italian film star at the height of her fame and her allure
By Ben Cosgrove
September 18, 2014
Richard Nixon Has His Tie Adjusted, and Likes It
LIFE photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt adjusts Richard Nixon's tie while covering the GOP presidential candidate during his 1960 campaign against Sen. John F. Kennedy.
By Ben Cosgrove
September 8, 2014
Behind the Picture: Joseph Goebbels Glares at the Camera, Geneva, 1933
LIFE.com recalls a chilling Alfred Eisenstaedt photo of Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels at a League of Nations conference in 1933.
By Ben Cosgrove
August 1, 2014
V-J Day, 1945: A Nation Lets Loose
Revisiting Alfred Eisenstaedt's storied photograph, 'V-J Day in Times Square,' and other wild celebrations around the U.S.
By Ben Cosgrove
August 1, 2014
Learning Photography From Ansel Adams and Other Summertime Adventures
Photos from summer camps for grownups in the late 1950s: art colonies and workshops where college students and full-blown adults honed their artistic chops in the great outdoors.
By Ben Cosgrove
July 21, 2014
'Hemingway Almost Killed Me': A LIFE Photographer Remembers
LIFE features a picture from a famously disastrous photo shoot in Cuba—a photo that, in light of the photographer's memories, carries a hint of genuine menace.
By Ben Cosgrove
July 20, 2014
LIFE Goes to a County Fair, 1938
In 1938, Alfred Eisenstaedt went to a fair in West Virginia, and -- true to form -- came back with marvelous portraits of fairgoers, performers, attractions and the fairgrounds themselves.
By Ben Cosgrove
July 17, 2014
V for Victory: Celebrating a Gesture of Solidarity and Defiance
On the anniversary of the day Winston Churchill first endorsed the "V for Victory" campaign, LIFE celebrates the gesture as one of those strokes of genius that occasionally serve to unite and inspire millions.
By Ben Cosgrove
July 4, 2014
Ruff Stuff: Early Days of Dog Walking in NYC
Other jobs come and go in the Big Apple -- but the sight of a man or woman expertly walking a pack of energized dogs never gets old. And, we hope, it never will.
By Ben Cosgrove
June 8, 2014
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