Alfred Eisenstaedt, born on December 6, 1898 and died on August 23, 1995, was a German-born American photographer and photojournalist. He began his career in Germany before World War II but achieved prominence as a staff photographer for Life magazine after moving to the United States. Life featured more than 90 of his pictures on its covers and more than 2,500 of his photo stories. Among his most famous cover photographs was V-J Day in Times Square, taken during the V-J Day celebration and showing an American sailor kissing a nurse in a dancelike dip.
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2020: Eisenstaedt was posthumously inducted into the International Photography Hall of Fame and Museum.
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Alfred Eisenstaedt (December 6, 1898, August 23, 1995) was a German-born American photographer and photojournalist.
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V-J Day in Times Square is a photograph by Alfred Eisenstaedt that portrays a U.S.
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