Description
The Viking Press (A Studio Book), Published 1969. Hardcover, 199 pp.; 22 cm; second printing (July 1969); illustrated with black-and-white photographs, some in color.
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In Very Good condition with a Good dust jacket. Tan linen-weave cloth boards, brown lettering on spine; mild shelf and edge wear. Binding tight. Previous owner's bookplate on front pastedown and previous owner's name in ink on front free endpaper. Mild uneven toning to endpapers; pages otherwise unmarked. Pictorial dust jacket (red title lettering, front panel with Eisenstaedt photographs including Sophia Loren; rear panel with Eisenstaedt photographed by Susan Neuberger Wilson) shows a 1-inch chip at top fore-edge corner of front panel, a 3/4-inch triangular chip at head of rear joint, a few smaller chips at spine ends and edges, edge tears and creasing, mild overall shelf and edge wear with some color loss along edges, some fading to spine and some toning. Now in an archival quality (removable) Brodart cover. Alfred Eisenstaedt's own account of his career and working methods, as told to Arthur Goldsmith, former executive editor of Popular Photography. Covers his boyhood in West Prussia and Berlin, wounding in World War I, first sale in 1927, his first professional assignment photographing Thomas Mann at the 1929 Nobel ceremony, his early Leica work, and his years at Life (more than ninety covers by 1969). Later chapters give his views on timing, light, portraits, animals, candid work and children, with practical notes on technique and equipment. Illustrated with his photographs, among them George Bernard Shaw (1932), the Ethiopian soldier's feet, the V-J Day kiss in Times Square, contact sheets of Attlee and Churchill, Khrushchev at the United Nations, Athens in 1934, and color work on Martha's Vineyard. Laid in: newspaper clipping of Andy Grundberg's obituary "Photographer was the essence of Life" (N.Y. Times News Service, 1995), left edge torn. Contents: In the Beginning; How I Became a Professional; Learning to Be a Photojournalist; A Sense of Timing; A Feeling for Light; People; The Discovering Eye; Birds, Animals, and Pets; Candid Photography; Photographing Children; Views from My Window; On Technique.