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Eisenstaedt, Alfred.

Witness to our time / Alfred Eisenstaedt ; foreword by Henry R. Luce.

Rev. ed.

New York : Penguin Books, 1980.

348 pages : illustrations ; 31 cm

Rich with a half-century of photographs from the pages of Life magazine, this volume presents a gallery of famous people and a photohistory of great events captured by the camera of the brilliant photojournalist Alfred Eisenstaedt (1898-1995). Portraying over three hundred men and women of our time (among them John Kennedy, Golda Meir, George Bernard Shaw, Sophia Loren, Ernest Hemingway, Katharine Hepburn, and Mikhail Baryshnikov), Eisenstaedt recreates the memories, the emotions, and the excitement of five tumultuous decades.--From publisher description.

Portrait photography.

Twentieth century -- Pictorial works.

Illustrated works.

Includes index.

Foreword / by Henry R. Luce -- Echoes of World War I : Verdun -- Europe between two wars -- The search for peace -- The rise of the dictators -- The United States : the Great Depression -- Hollywood -- The United States : World War II -- Birth of a bomb -- A defeated Japan -- The Korean War -- Italy : the communists lose -- Czechoslovakia : the communists win -- England : three prime ministers -- The United States : Eisenhower becomes president -- A portfolio of distinguished Englishmen -- The Royal Family -- Ethiopia -- Kenya -- Ghana -- "The fabulous country" -- A portfolio of distinguished Americans -- Conservation in the United States -- The performing arts -- The travel boom -- The United Nations -- John F. Kennedy -- The eye of Eisenstaedt -- Personalities : the seventies.

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