Photojournalist. He gained fame as a professional photographer whose photographs graced at least 90 covers of "Life Magazine." On August 14, 1945, in midtown Manhattan, he captured his most famous photograph, which was a United States Navy sailor kissing a woman in a white dress in New York City's Times Square during the celebration sparked by V-J Day. As a photographer, he waited until the late afternoon lighting, when the sailor wearing his dark uniform randomly kissed a lady in a contrasting white dress. This photograph of strangers kissing gained him more professional recognition than his photographs of well-known public figures such as Sophia Loren, Marilyn Monroe, Albert Einstein and President Bill Clinton and his family in 1993. Born into a Jewish household in Tczew, the Prussian Empire city located in Poland in the 21st century, his professional career began in Germany prior to immigrating to the United States shortly before World War II. His interest in photography began as a child with a Kodak camera. During World War I, he served in the Imperial German Army's artillery and was wounded in 1918. At first, he was a freelance photographer until he started to work full-time in 1929 with the Associated Press while in Europe. In the early 1930s, he photographed Nazi Dictator Adolph Hitler's first meeting with Benito Mussolini in Italy and Nazi Leader Joseph Goebbels at the League of Nations. In October of 1935, he captured over 3,500 photographs of the invasion of Ethiopia by Mussolini's forces before immigrating with his family to the United States to escape the Jewish oppression by the Nazi Forces. Known as "Eisie" to his close friends, he had a long career with "Life" magazine as a staff photographer from 1936 to 1972. He took thousands of photographs for "Life." Later, he worked for "Harper's Bazaar," "Town and Country," and 'Vogue." Among his many awards, he received the National Medal of Arts in 1989, "Photojournalist of the Century" by the magazine "Digital Journalist" in 1999 and posthumously in 2020, was inducted into the International Photography Hall of Fame and Museum.