Eisenstaedt
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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The photo, by Alfred Eisenstaedt, is called “V-J Day in Times Square” but is known to most people simply as “The Kiss.”
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 5, 2024
According to family lore, the photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt proclaimed them the handsomest couple in New York.
From New York Times ● Apr. 9, 2019
George Mendonsa, the “kissing sailor” photographed by Alfred Eisenstaedt in Times Square during celebrations at the end of the second world war, has died aged 95.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 19, 2019
Mendonsa for years claimed he was the sailor who was photographed on Aug. 14, 1945 by Alfred Eisenstaedt and published in Life as a scene from “V-J Day in Times Square.”
From Slate ● Feb. 18, 2019
The magazine hired him as a correspondent in 1946, and he later became a picture editor, working with such renowned photographers as Alfred Eisenstaedt.
From Washington Post
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