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Alfred Eisenstaedt

'V-J Day, Times Square, New York City, August 14, 1945'

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March 17, 05:16 PM GMT

Estimate

10,000 - 15,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Alfred Eisenstaedt

1898 - 1995

'V-J Day, Times Square, New York City, August 14, 1945'

signed Eisenstaedt (lower right margin)

gelatin silver print

17 ½ by 12 in.

43.2 by 30.5 cm.

Executed 14 August 1945 and printed in 1995, this work is number 234 from an edition of 250.

Gallery Old Town, San Diego

Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2000

Alfred Eisenstaedt, Witness To Our Time, New York, 1966, p. 117, illustrated

Alfred Eisenstaedt, Eisenstaedt on Eisenstaedt, New York, 1985, pp. 74-5, illustrated

Alfred Eisenstaedt, Eisenstaedt: Remembrances, New York, 1990, p. 66, illustrated