Dancers at George Balanchine's School of American Ballet, New York, 1936. To view more photos by one of LIFE's great photographers, Alfred Eisenstaedt, check out:
Marilyn Monroe and Alfred Eisenstaedt at Monroe's Beverly Hills home, 1953.LIFE on Both Sides of the Camera: Eisenstaedt’s Surprising Self-PortraitsAlfred Eisenstaedt Time & LIfe Pictures/ShutterstockThe great Alfred Eisenstaedt’s photographic vision wasn’t limited to the intimate portraits he produced of some of the 20th century’s most famous faces, fromand Frank Lloyd Wright to Mia Farrow and J. Robert Oppenheimer.
The realization that “Eisie” often turned the lens on himself in this way is likely to astonish photography aficionados and casual fans alike.
Eisenstaedt also famously carried with him an autograph book that, by the end of his life, was filled with page after page of signatures from long-forgotten artists, fellow photographers, legendary athletes, powerful world leaders in short, from anyone and everyone he happened to shoot. The man’s habit of photographing himself with his subjects, and even asking for their autographs for his ever-growing collection, was not only well-known among by his colleagues at LIFE and elsewhere, but in at least one instance the seemingly whimsical tradition appears to have had a lasting influence on one of his younger peers. The celebrated sports photographer Neil Leifer recently told LIFE.
If Alfred Eisenstaedt, of all people, takes self-portraits with his subjects, and asks them for autographs, how unprofessional can it really be?Here, then, in tribute to the endearing penchant of one of the 20th century’s indispensable photographers a penchant to add a quiet, personal, visual coda to so much of his life’s work LIFE.com offers a selection of some of the most revealing and unexpected of Alfred Eisensteadt’s singularly charming self-portraits.
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