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Recording sessions were stimulating to photograph, because everything was in motion: the subject, the musicians, the technicians and the photographer. You needed fast reflexes to keep up with moving targets, and sensitivity and skill to get the pictures while keeping out of the performers' eyeline so as not to break their concentration.

Eve Arnold

I have been poor and I wanted to document poverty; I had lost a child and I was obsessed with birth; I was interested in politics and I wanted to know how it affected our lives; I am a woman and I wanted to know about women.

Eve Arnold

If the chemistry is right between star and photographer and the geometry of the pictures pleases the star, often the two people end up with a long-term professional friendship during which they continue to work together and to produce highly personal images.

Eve Arnold

Eve Arnold

Eve Arnold

Born: April 21, 1912

Died: January 4, 2012 (aged 99)

Bio: Eve Arnold, OBE, Hon. FRPS was an American photojournalist. She joined Magnum Photos agency in 1951, and became a full member in 1957.

Known for:

Marilyn Monroe . . . an Appreciation (1987)
Film journal (1971)
Eve Arnold: In Retrospect (1995)
Handbook with Footnotes (2004)
Handbook (with Footnotes) (2004)

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