Alfred Eisenstaedt

signed by the photographer and numbered '85/250' in an unidentified hand in ink in the margin, credited, titled, dated, copyrighted, and annotated in an unidentified hand in pencil on the reverse, matted, framed, 1963, printed in 1991, no. 85 in an edition of 250

Other prints of this image:

Eisenstaedt on Eisenstaedt (New York, 1985), p. 105

Doris C. O'Neil, ed., Eisenstaedt: Remembrances (Boston, 1995), pp. 116-17

Reflections in a Glass Eye: Works from the International Center of Photography Collection (Boston, 1999), p. 15

Richard Lacayo and George Russell, Eyewitness: 150 Years of Photojournalism (New York, 1990), p. 153

John Loengard, ed., LIFE Faces (New York, 1991), pp. 12-13

This print is in generally excellent condition.
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'LIFE wanted me to photograph "Eisenstaedt's Paris". . . a knowledgeable reporter worked with me.  Every time I raised my camera she said, "Oh, Capa has taken that," or Cartier-Bresson. . . I told her, "Look, I have to do it my way. . . I must look and wait, and that's something I do best alone . . ."  In the Parc de Montsouris I discovered an outdoor puppet show. . . It was wonderful watching the children's faces at the moment the bad dragon was slain...I have never made a better picture of expressions on the human face' (LIFE Faces, pp. 12-13).