ALFRED EISENSTAEDT (1898–1995) ‘Fall, Shadows Grow Longer’, Czechoslovakia 1927

Gelatin silver print, printed 1980s 26 x 34 cm (10.2 x 13.4 in) Signed by the photographer in ink in the margin, his “PHOTO BY ALFRED EISENSTAEDT” stamp and his annotations reading “This picture of a tennis player in Johannisbach, Bohemia, started my career, 1927” by Eisenstaedt in ink on the reverse PROVENANCE Eisenstaedt Family Estate LITERATURE The Eye of Eisenstaedt, London 1969, p. 13. Im Urlaub in Johannisbach, heute Luková, machte Eisenstaedt diese Aufnahme, die auch seine erste Veröffentlichung wurde. Er verkaufte das Foto für 3 $ an die deutsche Wochenzeitschrift Der Weltspiegel. Die Erfahrung ermutigte ihn, kurz darauf, 1928, wurde er freier Mitarbeiter von The Associated Press. While on holiday in Johannisbach, today Luková, Eisenstaedt took this photograph, which was also his first picture to be published. He sold it for $3 to the German weekly Der Weltspiegel. The experience encouraged him, and shortly afterwards, in 1928 he became a freelance photographer of The Associated Press.