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From the moment Alfred Eisenstaedt realized that he could tell a story with photos, he was awing the world with not what was said, but what was seen within a single photo. Eisenstaedt photographed a variety of people that included Hollywood's most famous, Nobel Prize winners, and some of the most powerful rulers of his time. He shed a new light onto the photography world as we knew it, and provided a fresh and enlightening perspective on the theory, a picture can tell a thousand words.
Alfred Eisenstaedt was born December 6, 1898 in Dirschau, West Prussia, which is now a part of Poland. Eisenstaedt was the son of a merchant, and at the age of eight he and his family moved to Berlin. Many believe that he would have followed his father's footsteps if it wouldn't have been for his uncle. He purchased Alfred his first camera, an Eastman Kodak no.3 folding camera, when Eisenstaedt was only fourteen years old. A few years after receiving his first camera, Eisenstaedt enrolled in the......

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