- Eisenstaedt was a painter.
- He was born in December.
- Eisenstaedt fought in World War 1.
- He first worked as a belt and button salesman after the war,
but later he began taking photos for a German newspaper. - He emigrated to the United States in 1953.
- His most famous photo was taken in San Francisco.
- VJ-Day celebrates the Japanese surrender during World War 2.
- Eisenstaedt died at home in 1996.
Alfred Eisenstaedt was a German-American photographer and photojournalist. He was born on December 6, 1898 in West Prussia. In 1906 his family moved to Berlin. Eisenstaedt served in the German army during World War 1 and was wounded in 1918. After the war, he worked as a belt and button salesman after which he began taking photos for a German newspaper. In 1933, he took a famous photo of a meeting between Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini.
In 1935 Eisenstaedt emigrated to the United States and began working for Life magazine. Eisenstaedt's most famous photograph is one of an American sailor kissing a young woman in 1945 in Times Square, New York during the VJ-Day celebrations (the day Japan surrendered during World War 2). Eisenstaedt died in his bed at midnight in August, 1995.
