EISENSTAEDT (Alfred). - Lot 97

EISENSTAEDT (Alfred). Germany. [Stuttgart], [1980s]. Large 4to, publisher's hardcover with illustrated dust jacket. An important monograph devoted to the German photographs of Alfred Eisenstaedt (1898–1995), one of the greatest photojournalists of the 20th century. Before his exile to the United States in 1935 and his long collaboration with Life magazine, Eisenstaedt traveled throughout Germany during the Weimar Republic and the early years of the Third Reich, creating a body of work of exceptional documentary and human richness. The volume brings together a vast selection of photographs spanning nearly six decades, from his earliest Berlin photographs of 1913 to his most famous photoessays. It features portraits of artists, writers, musicians, politicians, and ordinary people, as well as street scenes, landscapes, historical events, and moments of everyday life, all captured in that instantly recognizable style where the spontaneity of photojournalism blends with remarkably elegant composition. The book offers a panoramic view of Germany as seen through the lens of one of the great masters of humanist photography, whose gaze—attentive to both the simplest gestures and the upheavals of history—has profoundly shaped modern photojournalism. A very fine copy in its illustrated dust jacket.