Eisenstaedt and colleagues like Carl Mydans, Andreas Feininger, Cornell Capa, Gordon Parks, Dmitri Kessel, and thirty-eight other Life photographers interviewed here were practicing journalism in fact, but the results often turned out to be art. In one hundred hours of taped conversations, they confided their ambitions, anxieties, and accomplishments to their friend and peer John Loengard, Life's most distinguished contemporary photo essayist. These real-life stories of the adventures and mishaps of staff photographers - from World War II in Europe and the Pacific to the tumultuous events of the 1950s through the 197Os - delineate the golden era of photojournalism
"A Bulfinch Press book."
Includes bibliographical references (pages 450-451) and index
Alfred Eisenstaedt -- Rex Hardy -- John Phillips -- Peter Stackpole -- Horace Bristol -- Hansel Mieth -- Carl & Shelley Mydans -- David E. Scherman -- Hart Preston -- Myron Davis -- Ralph Morse -- Andreas Feininger -- John Florea -- George Silk -- Edward Clark -- Martha Holmes -- Dmitri Kessel -- Mark Kauffman -- Walter B. Lane -- Nina Leen -- Charles Steinheimer -- Cornell Capa -- Anthony Linck -- Jack Birns -- Loomis Dean -- Allan Grant -- Yale Joel -- William J. Sumits -- Joe Scherschel -- Gordon Parks -- John Dominis -- Howard Sochurek -- Hank Walker -- Grey Villet -- John Loengard -- Bill Ray -- Bill Eppridge -- Henry Groskinsky -- Co Rentmeester -- Vernon Merritt -- John Olson -- John Shearer -- Michael Mauney -- Harry Benson -- Complete list of Life staff photographers