"In Times Square on V.J. Day, I saw a sailor running along the street grabbing every girl in sight. I was running ahead of him with my Leica looking back over my shoulder. Then suddenly, in a flash, I saw something white being grabbed. I turned around and clicked the moment the sailor kissed the nurse...I took exactly four pictures. It was done within a few seconds."
A mother and her child in the bombed landscape of Hiroshima, Japan, 1946.
"It took a long time to get the angle I liked, but the best picture is the one I took at the climax of the action. It carries all the excitement of the children screaming, "The dragon is slain!" Very often this sort of thing is only a momentary vision, my brain does not register, only my eyes and finger react. Click."
"In 1937, the executive editor of LIFE was Daniel Longwell, who gave me the assignment at Roosevelt Hospital. I am often asked if editors tell photographers exactly what to shoot. At LIFE the photographer was an individualist, and he could photograph anything he wanted to. Nobody told him anything. But Longwell had one wish about the hospital story. 'Alfred,' he said, 'you can do anything, but I don't want to see any blood.' How different from LIFE today."
"In Italy, I photographed a gala evening at La Scala. This was one of my first pictures with a Leica on a tripod. Suddenly I saw a lovely young society girl sitting next to an empty box. From that box I took this picture, with the girl in the foreground... Without the girl I would not have had a memorable picture."
"On the eve of Mussolini's attack in Ethiopia, I took this shot of the Emperor's soldiers on maneuvers. The close-up tells the whole story of a barefoot army."
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