Alfred Eisenstaedt 1898-1995

signed by the photographer and numbered '56/250' in an unidentified hand in ink in the margin, credited, titled, dated, annotated, and copyrighted in an unidentified hand in pencil on the reverse, framed, 1963, printed in 1990, no. 56 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

'A puppet theater in the Tuileries.  It took a long time to get the angle I liked.  There are some close-ups of the children that are good.  But the best picture is the one I took at the climax of the action.  It carries all the excitement of the children screaming, "The dragon is slain!"  Very often this sort of thing is only a momentary vision, my brain does not register, only my eyes and finger react. Click' (Eisenstaedt on Eisenstaedt, p. 105).