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Alfred Eisenstaedt, an Uncommon card
Alfred Eisenstaedt was a German-born American photographer and photojournalist.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Society
- ATK
- 65
- DEF
- 61
- Power
- 126
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 70,000
Power 126 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 60 % of WikiCards cards.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- He began his career in Germany prior to World War II but achieved prominence as a staff photographer for Life magazine after moving to the U.S. Life featured more than 90 of his pictures on its covers, and more than 2,500 of his photo stories were published.
- Among his most famous cover photographs was V-J Day in Times Square, taken during the V-J Day celebration in New York City, showing an American sailor kissing a nurse in a "dancelike dip" which "summed up the euphoria many Americans felt as the war came to a close", in the words of his obituary.
- He was "renowned for his ability to capture memorable images of important people in the news" and for his candid photographs taken with a small 35mm Leica camera, typically with natural lighting.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Alfred Eisenstaedt article was read about 70,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 65 and blocks with 61: each hit it takes is cut by 24 %.
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Alfred Eisenstaedt (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Harvey Shaman, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.