Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #79012 in DVD
• Released on: 2003-01-01
• Formats: Color, Full Screen, NTSC
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 60 minutes

Amazon.com
This is THE documentary film on great photojournalists, Life Magazine, and Eisenstaedt. It was produced with him at the height of his career. He tells all about photography, Hitler, Hollywood, the 1950s, and so much more.

In this Emmy-award-winning program, Eisenstaedt, at age 82, returns to his German homeland. all along the way, he tells stories, reveal secrets, shows his techniques. A charming funny Emmy award-winning documentary film that first ran on prime time PBS.

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Film and Video News
David Hoffman's Alfred Eisenstaedt is 30 minutes of absolute delight.

New York Post
"A Must for Photographers at all skill levels…."

Customer Reviews

Remembering Alfred Eisenstaedt
I bought my DVD of the "Alfred Eisenstaedt Photographer" through Amazon.com. While the sound quality was good, the reproduced video image quality was horrible. The colors throughout the whole DVD were badly faded and all the images looked like you were viewing everything through a snow storm. The DVD appeared to be a poorly prepared copy from VHS tape or film original.

I've always had greatest respect for Alfred Eisenstaedt for all his Life magazine covers and photo documentaries. The man had a special gift for capturing the critical moment of an event and leaving future generations a powerful visual memory of the past.

This documentary followed an elderly Alfred Eisenstaedt taking photographs of modern Germany for a 10th book. He left a his homeland and a successful photographic career in Europe after Hitler took power in Germany during the 1930s. He described a few of his famous photographs, but only few of his many important images from his long photographic career were presented on the DVD.

As an amateur photographer, I thought it was odd that the documentary film makers didn't know very much about 35mm film cameras. They showed Eisenstaedt aiming his Leica at a scene inside a museum holding the camera vertically and then they cut away to show a black and white image of same scene in a wide horizontal format. That would have been a lot of image cropping for a photo editor.

I was hoping the documentary would be at least as interesting as the BBC's documentary treatment of Alfred Eisenstaedt that is posted on YouTube. It wasn't.

alfred eisenstaedt photographer
very good video of a all together person and photographer.
Very inspiring about his life.
Good coverage about candid type photography.