Aigner, Ladislas

▪ 2000

“Lucien” 

      Hungarian-born photojournalist whose use of the then new 35-mm Leica camera made him one of the pioneers in candid news photography in the 1930s and allowed him to capture such famous images as Albert Einstein standing before a blackboard and looking slightly rumpled (his favourite photograph of himself) and Benito Mussolini pinching his nose (b. Sept. 14, 1901, Ersekujvar, Hung., Austria-Hungary [now Nove Zamky, Czech Rep.]—d. March 29, 1999, Waltham, Mass.).

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