Eisenstaedt Germany

by Unknown

Photography by Alfred Eisenstaedt. Foreword by Klaus Honnef, Joshua C. Taylor & Gregory A. Vitiello.

112 pages, Paperback

First published December 1, 1980

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Reviews

[Kevin Hurley · Rating 5 out of 5]

The father of photojournalism Alfred Eisenstaedt.

His caption of taking a photo of Joseph Goebbels, Nazi minister of propaganda, says:

“This picture could be titled ‘From Goebbels with Love.’ When I went up to him in the garden of the hotel, he looked at me with hateful eyes and waited for me to wither. But I didn't wither. If I have a camera in my hand, I don't know fear.”

Geneva, September 1933.

[David Corleto-Bales · Rating 5 out of 5]

A marvelous book of photographs from the great German photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt, all of his native country, spanning 1913 to 1980. Eisenstaedt fled Germany in 1935 for the West, during the Nazi era, and photographs people as diverse as Gunter Grass, Joseph Goebbels, Lufthansa stewardesses and chimney sweeps during 50 years of German history. He likes to contrast Germany of the '20s and '30s with the informality of Berlin in the late '70s and early '80s.