Witness to Our Time

Download or read book Witness to Our Time written by Alfred Eisenstaedt and published by Penguin Group. This book was released on 1980 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.