{"id":2914,"date":"2014-05-12T13:06:05","date_gmt":"2014-05-12T13:06:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/drp\/?p=4127"},"modified":"2014-05-12T13:06:05","modified_gmt":"2014-05-12T13:06:05","slug":"life-photographer-alfred-eisenstaedts-1961-visit-to-campus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/2014\/05\/12\/life-photographer-alfred-eisenstaedts-1961-visit-to-campus\/","title":{"rendered":"Life photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt\u2019s 1961 visit to campus"},"content":{"rendered":"

A few months ago, I saw a photograph<\/a>\u00a0(not in our collection) taken by Alfred Eisenstaedt for Life magazine of students drawing a live nude model. The photo is undated other than 1961. Looking through the Daily Iowan<\/em> archive<\/a>, it was easy to determine that he visited campus in May 1961. DI reporter\u00a0Anne Stearns, wrote in the May 12, 1961<\/a> issue:<\/p>\n

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A pleasant surprise for a journalist during the Wednesday morning presentation was photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt of Life Magazine, who commandeered ladders, tree branches and people (notable or students) and arranged them for his pictures. Named Photographer of the Year in 1950, Eisenstaedt noted his 25th anniversary as a photographer in 1954, and is known for his superb portraits and for his sensitive news pictures. The voice of authority was speaking when he ordered Paul Engle and Donald Justice to move their class to another spot on the riverbank for a shot.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The May 16<\/a> issue has a much longer piece by Dianne Grossett and Jerry Parker.<\/p>\n

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Eisenstaedt, 63, left the SUI campus Saturday after a two-week stay on assignment with Life reporter Elizabeth Baker. The team was here \u201cto re-create in pictures the life of graduate students in the creative arts at SUI,\u201d Miss Baker explained.<\/p>\n

Their interest is in more than the conventional classroom situation, she added \u2014 in how students relax, where they live, their work, pasttimes, parties. They have visited several students’ homes, browsed about the Art, Theatre and Music Buildings, and have even been to Kenney\u2019s.<\/p>\n

Eisenstaedt pointed out that they do not know the publication date of the story \u2014 or even that it will be published. SUI was chosen for the possible feature, Miss Baker said, \u201cbecause of its varied and active creative arts program which has national reputation.\u201d She mentioned outstanding persons such as Mauricio Lasansky and Paul Engle.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The full text of both articles can be read in the links above and has been excepted here<\/a>. Kenney’s was a bar on the west side of Clinton St. which was popular with the Writer’s Workshop participants. The Iowa City Public Library Digital History Project<\/a> has a picture of Kenney’s<\/a> which is posted\u00a0in the Iowa City Past Tumblr<\/a>. As far as\u00a0I\u00a0know, the article was never published. I also have not seen any other pictures from\u00a0Eisenstaedt’s time on campus.<\/p>\n

\"1961<\/a><\/p>\n

During the time\u00a0Eisenstaedt was on campus, the Gibson A Danes, Dean of the School of Art and Architecture, Yale University, spoke at the opening of the annual Festival of the Arts and the dedication of the expanded art gallery (May 9, 1961)\u00a0. The text of his speech<\/a> as well as pictures from the festival are also available in our collection.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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