Featured photo for exhibit Alfred Eisenstaedt

Alfred Eisenstaedt

- 2016-06-26

Santa Fe--Monroe Gallery of Photography, 112 Don Gaspar, is pleased to announce a major exhibition of classic and seldom-seen photographs by Alfred Eisenstaedt. The exhibition opens on Friday, April 29, and will continue through June 26.

The exhibition of more than 50 photographs features numerous classic images, several little-known gems, and never-before-exhibited photographs that are sure to surprise and intrigue. Renowned as the father of modern photojournalism, Alfred Eisenstaedt’s career as a preeminent photojournalist spanned eight decades. Born in West Prussia in 1898, "Eisie" began taking photographs in Germany in 1914. As a pioneer in his field, "Eisie" had few rules to follow. Diminutive in stature, he worked with minimal equipment and was known for an aggressive yet invisible style of working. Regarded as an innovator of available light photography, Eisenstaedt dispensed with flash photography early on in order to preserve the ambiance of natural lighting.

He photographed throughout Europe, Africa, and the Middle East until he came to LIFE magazine in 1936. As one of the four original staff photographers for LIFE, "Eisie" covered over 2,500 assignments and created 92 covers for the magazine. Acknowledged as one of the most published photojournalists in the world, he took photographs at the first meeting of Hitler and Mussolini, of Albert Einstein teaching at Princeton, Churchill’s campaign and re-election, children at a puppet theater in Paris, Marilyn Monroe at home, and hundreds of other significant people and events around the world. He was an editor’s dream, and his work had what became known as "Eisie’s eye". His pictures let people and events speak for themselves.

Children at a Puppet Theatre, Paris, 1963 Time Inc.<br/>
Drum Major and Children, University of Michigan, 1951<br/>
Little Boy selling Coca-Cola at Roadside, Atlanta. Georgia, 1936<br/>
An American Block, Hamilton, Ohio, 1943<br/>
Girl in surf, Jones Beach, New York, 1951<br/>
Boy with dried spaghetti, Naples, Italy, 1934<br/>
Enlarged negative strip of Children at a puppet theater, Paris, 1964<br/>
Art class in Volendam, Netherlands, 1932<br/>
Art class in Volendam, Netherlands, 1932<br/>
Night scene, River Arno, Florence, Italy, 1934<br/>
Gondolas, Venice, Italy, 1947<br/>
Tree lined road, Delft, Netherlands, 1971<br/>
Counting Pearls in the Mikimoto Cultured Pearl Factory, Japan, 1946<br/>
Destitute men being fed in the Notre Dame Cathedral, Rouen, France, 1931<br/>
Small dog in woman's purse, Paris, France<br/>
Toy Train Society, Berlin, Germany, 1931<br/>
Ice Skating Waiter, St. Moritz, 1932<br/>
Waiters watching Sonya Henie skate, St. Moritz, 1932 <br/>Please contact Gallery for price
Truman Capote ice skating in Rockefeller Center, 1959<br/>
School of American Ballet, 1936<br/>
Opera de Paris Ballet School, 1930<br/>
Lesson at La Scala's Ballet School, Milan, Italy, 1934<br/>
First Lesson at Treumpy Ballet School, Berlin - Time, Inc.<br/>
Premier at La Scala, Milan, 1933 (Life Magazine/Time Warner Inc.)<br/>
Central Park After A Snowstorm, New York, 1959<br/>
Trees in snow,St. Moritz, 1947<br/>
Evergreen Trees at -51 Degrees Mt. Tremblant, Canada, 1944<br/>
The First Meeting of Mussolini and Hitler,Venice, June 13,1934<br/>
Dr. Joseph Goebbels, Geneva, September, 1933<br/>
V-J Day in Times Square, New York, August 14, 1945 (Time Inc)<br/>
Winston Churchill, Liverpool, 1951<br/>
Mother and Child in Hiroshima, Four Months After the Atomic Bomb Dropped<br/>
Albert Einstein, Princeton, New Jersey, 1947<br/>
J. Robert Oppenheimer, Princeton, New Jersey, 1947<br/>Please contact Gallery for price
Ernest Hemingway, Cojmar Harbor, Cuba, 1952<br/>
Harry S. Truman, Independence, Missouri, 1956<br/>
President John F.Kennedy with his wife, Jacqueline, and Vice-President Lyndon B. Johnson at inaugural celebration, Mayflower Hotel, Washington, DC, 1961<br/>
Alfred Eisenstaedt ©Time Inc. President John F. Kennedy in the Oval Office, Washington, DC, 1961<br/>
President Bill Clinton, Martha's Vineyard, 1993<br/>
Marlene Dietrich, Foreign Press Ball, Berlin, Germany, 1929<br/>
Marilyn Monroe, Hollywood, 1953<br/>
Marilyn Monroe, Hollywood, 1953<br/>
Nathan Milstein, Vladimir Horowitz, Gregor Piatigorsky, Berlin, Germany 1931 Time Inc<br/>
Leonard Bernstein conducting Mahler's Second Symphony, Carnegie Hall, New York, 1960<br/>
Russian Composer Igor Stravinsky<br/>
Robert Frost, Ripton, Vermont, 1955<br/>
Immigrant Child waiting at Ellis Island, 1950<br/>
African American sharecropper saying his evening prayers as he kneels at bedside at home., 1936<br/>
Abandoned boat, Menemsha Harbor, Martha's Vineyard, 1960<br/>