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Alfred Eisenstaedt was born on December 6, 1898 in Dirschau, West Prussia, Germany. he is the son of a merchant. he could have followed his father’s footsteps if his uncle had not given him an Eastman Kodak Folding camera with roll film as a present for his fourteenth birthday when they moved to Berlin in 1906. This is the beginning Eisenstaedt got interest in photography and later became one of Life magazines most famous photographers. Eisenstaedt joined the German Army’s artillery during the World War I and his leg was seriously injured in April 1918. When he established a level of financial security, he purchased his first photographic equipment and started taking photographs as a freelance photographer for the Pacific and Atlantic Photos in Berlin while he was working as a belt and button salesman in 1920. he started developing his photographs in the bathroom of his house. his first famous photograph is a photograph of a woman playing tennis during the holiday in Czechoslovakia in 1927. The woman had a long shadow in the distance. Four years later, the photograph was sold to Der Welt Spiegel for three marks. It was the time Eisenstaedt decided to leave his job and dedicated himself full time to photography.
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