Thank you for sharing this with us.
I love how you mentioned:
“Presumably Eisenstaedt loved photography but it seems that he also loved life and people and that his photos were simply a natural extension of this.”
Very well said.
If you’re interested in seeing his work you can look through Google images here
http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&um=1&q=Alfred+Eisenstaedt&sa=N&start=18&ndsp=18