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

Estimate: € 2.500-3.000

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.

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.

Start price: €1.600