Word: eisenstaedt
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Alfred Eisenstaedt's exuberant V-J Day in Times Square. Dorothea Lange's moving Dust Bowl-era Migrant Mother. Neil Armstrong's historic Man's First Moon Walk. These are among the ten photos TIME has chosen as the most important news pictures in 150 years of photojournalism, and you can see them in a special collector's edition that appeared last week at newsstands around the country and in subscribers' mailboxes. From tens of thousands of images, special-projects editor Donald Morrison and his staff culled 91 in all, and finally chose ten that best define...
From top, left to right: (c) 1963 Bob Jackson, Sam Shere -- UPI/Bettmann, Bob Landry -- LIFE, NEIL ARMSTRONG -- NASA, JOE ROSENTHAL -- AP, ALFRED EISENSTAEDT -- LIFE, ED CLARK -- LIFE, DAVID BURNETT -- CONTACT PRESS IMAGES, J.R. EYERMAN -- LIFE, DOROTHEA LANGE -- THE OAKLAND MUSEUM, THE CITY OF OAKLAND, JOSEPH LOUW -- LIFE
Lacayo has moonlighted as the photography critic since 1986, when he helped persuade TIME's editors that the magazine should devote more coverage to the art. His wide choice of subject matter has included the off-center visions of Garry Winogrand and the embracing eye of LIFE's Alfred Eisenstaedt. Yet Lacayo prefers to make his own impressions with words rather than film. "I don't take photographs," he notes. "I take snapshots." After all, when he wants to look at enduring images, all he needs to do is reach for that beat-up old Cartier-Bresson volume that...
Oddly for a photographer who is known for keeping an autograph book, Eisenstaedt is sometimes held to lack an autograph of his own, an unmistakable style in the manner of Andre Kertesz or W. Eugene Smith. But the signature his work bears is more a matter of spirit than style, an embrace of life's episodes that is as benign and enveloping as eyesight itself. His 1963 picture of children watching a puppet show in Paris is both the consummate example of his close-in approach and the best metaphor for his own excitement in seeing...
...retrospect, Eisenstaedt's exile to America starts to look like a stroke of luck. Amid the prevailing cheer of the postwar nation, his upbeat view of things probably found a more ready audience than it would have in the more somber precincts of Europe. His chief mood is celebration. His chief attitude is assent. Is that the stuff of sweetness and light? Sometimes it is. But who can say no to such engaging sweetness, such abiding light...