Eve Arnold
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Born | Eve Cohen April 21, 1912 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
Died | January 4, 2012 London, England | (aged 99)
Occupation | Photojournalist |
Spouse |
Arnold Arnold (divorced) |
Children | 1[1] |
Website | evearnold |
Eve Arnold,
Early life and career
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Eve Arnold was born in
Arnold's images of Marilyn Monroe on the set of The Misfits (1961) were perhaps her most memorable, but she had taken many photos of Monroe from 1951 onwards. The intimate candid-style photos achieve Arnold's goal to show Monroe's anxieties about being the subject of constant media attention.[5] She befriended Monroe, Joan Crawford, and many other subjects in order to write about them and photograph them better.[1] Her previously unseen photos of Monroe were shown at a Halcyon Gallery exhibition in London during May 2005. Travel characterized much of Arnold's work, as she took interest in photographing the Civil rights and Black power movements in the United States as well as in the rigid Soviet Union and in China. Arnold always strived to go deeper with her photography; she even returned from some shoots with cigarette burns on her clothing from a disapproving crowd.[7] She produced a film in 1971, Women Behind the Veil, focusing on Arabian harems and hammams.[1]
She also photographed famous figures such as Queen Elizabeth II, Malcolm X, Marlene Dietrich, and Joan Crawford, and traveled around the world, photographing in China, Russia, South Africa and Afghanistan.[8] Arnold left the United States and moved permanently to England in the early 1970s with her son, Francis Arnold. Several of her famous photographs were featured in Look, Life, Esquire, Harper's Bazaar, Geo, Stern, Paris-Match, and Epoca. While working for the London Sunday Times, she began to make serious use of color photography.[8] However, Arnold's preference continued to be black and white. She alternated between taking glamorous photos of cinema stars and portraits of everyday life and experiences. The hardest task for Arnold was to make the mundane interesting.[6] Her interest in "the poor, the old, the underdog" continued as her photos captured the gentle realness that Arnold portrays as characteristic of all humans. The relationship of trust between Arnold and her subjects is visible in the natural lighting and posing in her photographs.[1]
Later life
In 1980, she had her first solo exhibition, which featured her photographic work done in China at the Brooklyn Museum in New York City. In the same year, she received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Society of Magazine Photographers. In 1993, she was made an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society,[9] and elected Master Photographer by New York's International Center of Photography. Arnold was one of only five women in the catalogued touring exhibition Magna Brava. Rejected as a Vietnam War photographer, she found photographing South African shanty towns also critiqued and drew awareness to the injustices in the world.[1] She also photographed disabled veterans, herders in Mongolia, and women in brothels.[7]
In 1960, Arnold did a series of portraits of American First Ladies including
She lived in Mayfair for many years until her last illness, when she moved to a nursing home in St George's Square, Pimlico. When Anjelica Huston asked if she was still doing photography, Arnold replied: "That's over. I can't hold a camera any more." She said she spent most of her time reading such writers as Fyodor Dostoevsky, Thomas Mann and Leo Tolstoy.[12] One of her last photos is of her grandson when he came to visit her for a photography lesson in 1994. She describes in her diary entry of that day the bond between photographer, subject, and camera that is necessary for a portrait. She continued to stress her style of simplicity in photos with natural lighting and lack of posing and embellishments. She sums up "curiosity" as a one-word description of her driving force that led to her career of which was described as a friend as "a one-woman cultural exchange".[6]
Death
Arnold died in London on January 4, 2012, aged 99, three months shy of her centenary.[13]
Selected works
Photographs
- Fashion Show, behind the scenes, 1950[14]
- Marilyn Monroe, 1960.[14]
- Jacqueline Kennedy arranging flowers with daughter Caroline, 1961.[14]
- Horse Training for the Militia in Inner Mongolia, 1979.[14]
Books
- The Unretouched Woman, 1976.
- Flashback: The 50s, Knopf, 1978.
- In China, Knopf, 1980.
- In America, Knopf, 1983.
- The Making of the White Nights, 1985
- Marilyn Monroe: An Appreciation, Knopf, 1987.
- All in a Day's Work, Bantam, 1989.
- The Great British, Knopf, 1991.
- In Retrospect, Knopf, 1995.
- Film Journal, Bloomsbury, 2002.
- Handbook, 2005
- Marilyn Monroe 2005
- Eve Arnold's People 2010
- All About Eve, 2012
Awards
- Honorary Degree of Doctor of Science, University of St. Andrews, Scotland, 1997.
- Honorary Degree of Doctor of Letters, Staffordshire University.
- Doctor of Humanities, Richmond, the American International University in London.
- Master Photographer, International Center of Photography, NYC.
- Honorary British Government.
- Lifetime Achievement Award, the Sony World Photography Awards, 2010.[15]
- National Book Award for In China, 1980
References
- ^ a b c d e f g h i Hopkinson, Amanda (2012-01-05). "Eve Arnold obituary". The Guardian. Retrieved 2019-12-04.
- ^ "Eve Arnold – photojournalist". Art Fine. Archived from the original on July 1, 2013. Retrieved September 2, 2010.
- ^ Waters, Florence (January 5, 2012). "American photographer Eve Arnold dies aged 99". Telegraph. Retrieved January 5, 2012.
- ^ Tim Troy "Arnold, Eve" in Robin Lenman (ed.) The Oxford Companion to the Photograph, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005, pg. 47
- ^ ISBN 978-1-884446-05-4. Retrieved 2020-04-17.
- ^ a b c Arnold, Eve (1995). "Diary Entry". Eve Arnold, in Retrospect.
- ^ a b "Remembering Eve Arnold, The Unretouched Woman". The Economist. January 10, 2012.
- ^ a b Liz Jobey, "What Eve Arnold saw", FT Magazine, 4 March 2012. Retrieved 4 March 2012
- ^ "Royal Photographic Society website". Archived from the original on 2012-08-14. Retrieved 2012-01-05.
- ^ "Photo Booth – First Ladies" by Maria Lokke, The New Yorker, January 11, 2012. Retrieved 4 March 2012.
- ^ Profile of Eve Arnold Archived 2009-01-07 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Eve Arnold's People, edited by Brigitte Lardinois with texts by Huston and Isabella Rossellini, London: Thames & Hudson, 2009
- ^ "Photojournalist Eve Arnold dies aged 99". BBC News. January 5, 2012. Retrieved January 5, 2012.
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- ^ "Eve Arnold to receive Lifetime Achievement Award at Sony World Photography Awards 2010". Aesthetica. Retrieved 2019-06-12.
External links
- Official website of the estate of Eve Arnold
- Portraits by Eve Arnold in the collection of the National Portrait Gallery, London
- Gerhard Bissell, Arnold, Eve, Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon(Artists of the World), Suppl. I, Saur, Munich 2005, from pg. 458 (in German).
- Emily Meyer Pomper, Arnold, Eve, in: Encyclopedia of Jewish Women.
- "Eve Arnold, a Photographer of Bold and Illuminating Images, Dies at 99" by Douglas Martin, The New York Times, January 5, 2012
- Sarah Archer (June 2012). "Who was Eve Arnold? The woman behind some iconic photographs". The Washington Post.
- Eve Arnold photosite.
- Eve Arnold Biography and Marilyn Monroe Pictures.
- Filmed interview with Eve Arnold, talking about the Magnum Photographic Agency.
- Eve Arnold Papers. Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.