Sophia by Eisenstaedt - Alfred Eisenstaedt

LIFE magazine’s Alfred Eisenstaedt and the Italian actress and Goddess Sophia Loren had a unique rapport, with “Eisie” shooting her multiple times from the early 1960s to the late 1970s. This Collector’s Edition, signed by Loren, features just under two hundred of these photographs, the majority unpublished, of the renowned beauty on film sets, with her family, and just being her fabulous, spontaneous self.Collector’s Edition (No. 201–1,200), numbered and signed by Sophia Loren The Queen of Italy Sophia Loren is regal, beautiful and yet always relatable in Eisie’s photographs In 1961, Sophia Loren met Alfred “Eisie” Eisenstaedt for the first time when he shot her for LIFE —the 20th century’s preeminent photography magazine. It was the start of a decades-long friendship between the captivating international star and the “father of photojournalism.” Loren was establishing herself as both a glamorous and serious actress in equal measure and was on the verge of becoming one of the most famous women in the world, while Eisenstaedt was already four decades into his legendary photographic career. Sophia presents just under two hundred never-before-seen color and black-and-white photographs from the ‘60s and ‘70s, culled deep from the archives of LIFE magazine, with the original negatives scanned in New York. These images are lovingly curated and presented, with the full approval of Loren and the Estate of Eisenstaedt in an unprecedented collaborati
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