The way I would describe a pictorial is that it is a picture that makes everybody say ‘Aaaaah,’ with five vowels when they see it. It is something you would like to hang on the wall. The french word ‘photogenique’… — Alfred Eisenstaedt Copy Share Image
When I photographed Marilyn Monroe, I mixed up my cameras - one had black-and-white film, the other color. I took many pictures. Only two color ones came out all right. My favorite picture of Marilyn hangs always on the wall… — Alfred Eisenstaedt Copy Share Image
In New York’s Times Square a white-clad girl clutches her purse and skirt as an uninhibited sailor plants his lips squarely on hers. — Alfred Eisenstaedt Copy Share Image
People will never understand the patience a photographer requires to make a great photograph, all they see is the end result. I can stand… — Alfred Eisenstaedt Copy Share Image
I don’t use an exposure meter. My personal advice is: Spend the money you would put into such an instrument for film. Buy yards… — Alfred Eisenstaedt Copy Share Image
Never boss people around. It's more important to click with people than to click the shutter. — Alfred Eisenstaedt Copy Share Image
Photographers don't need to be aggressive. Some are. Henry Benson is aggressive - but then he's from Fleet Street. If you can talk to… — Alfred Eisenstaedt Copy Share Image
I will be remembered when I'm in heaven. People won't remember my name, but they will know the photographer who did that picture of… — Alfred Eisenstaedt Copy Share Image
We are only beginning to learn what to say in a photograph. The world we live in is a succession of fleeting moments, any… — Alfred Eisenstaedt Copy Share Image
I see pictures all the time. I could stay for hours and watch a raindrop. — Alfred Eisenstaedt Copy Share Image
Yes, I sold buttons to earn living. But I took pictures to keep on living. Pictures are my life – as necessary as eating… — Alfred Eisenstaedt Copy Share Image
The most important thing... is not clicking the shutter... it is clicking with the subject. — Alfred Eisenstaedt Copy Share Image
I always prefer photographing in available light – or Rembrandt-light I like to call it – so you get the natural modulations of the… — Alfred Eisenstaedt Copy Share Image
