Alfred Eisenstaedt (December 6, 1898 – August 23, 1995) was a German-born American photographer and photojournalist. He began his career in Germany prior to World War II but achieved prominence as a staff photographer for Life magazine after moving to the U.S. Life featured more than 90 of his pictures on its covers, and more than 2,500 of his photo stories were published.
Mother and Child 4 months After Atomic Bomb, Hiroshima 1946Crying child Hiroshima.A group of children left homeless warm their hands at the outskirts of Hiroshima |Nagasaki, 1945, a few months after an American B-29 dropped an atomic bomb, codenamed "Fat Man," on the city. Two women pay respects at a ruined cemetery, Nagasaki, 1945. Nagasaki, 1945. Photo of Oppenheimer by the legendary Alfred Eisenstaedt is the definitely most well-known. Eisenstaedt photographed Oppenheimer’s piercing gaze and signature porkpie hat for LIFE magazine in 1947.Eisenstaedt photographed Oppenheimer again in 1963.
