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Aigner's first camera. a Brownie , was acquired at age nine and was used to photograph his family. By 1926 , Aigner was a reporter for Az Est, the Hungarian newspaper group, and soon became a photographer with them. During this time, Aigner became a Lieca user. As the Paris correspondent of the London General Press at the Stresa Conference of 1935 , Aigner photographed Benito Mussolini , who was about to sneeze as the picture was taken. The photo made the cover of Newsweek in 1940 , and established Aigner as an important Photojournalist . In 1941 he emigrated from France to the United States to escape Nazi persecution. Aigner then spent time at Princeton University taking photographs of Albert Einstein . The photos of Einstein are among Aigner's most famous, and were reportedly Einstein's favorite photos of himself. REFERENCES
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