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Photographer: Alfred Eisenstaedt

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I bought my DVD of the "Alfred Eisenstaedt Photographer" through Amazon.com. While the sound quality was good, the reproduced video image quality was horrible. The colors throughout the whole DVD were badly faded and all the images looked like you were viewing everything through a snow storm. The DVD appeared to be a poorly prepared copy from VHS tape or film original.

I've always had greatest respect for Alfred Eisenstaedt for all his Life magazine covers and photo documentaries. The man had a special gift for capturing the critical moment of an event and leaving future generations a powerful visual memory of the past.

This documentary followed an elderly Alfred Eisenstaedt taking photographs of modern Germany for a 10th book. He left a his homeland and a successful photographic career in Europe after Hitler took power in Germany during the 1930s. He described a few of his famous photographs, but only few of his many important images from his long photographic career were presented on the DVD.

As an amateur photographer, I thought it was odd that the documentary film makers didn't know very much about 35mm film cameras. They showed Eisenstaedt aiming his Leica at a scene inside a museum holding the camera vertically and then they cut away to show a black and white image of same scene in a wide horizontal format. That would have been a lot of image cropping for a photo editor.

I was hoping the documentary would be at least as interesting as the BBC's documentary treatment of Alfred Eisenstaedt that is posted on YouTube. It wasn't.

This video is 30 minutes long, not 60 minutes as is listed in the Amazon description. Misrepresentation should not be tolerated. Wake up, Amazon.

very good video of a all together person and photographer.
Very inspiring about his life.
Good coverage about candid type photography.