Eve Arnold
Eve Arnold
Eve Arnold, OBE, Hon. FRPSwas an American photojournalist. She joined Magnum Photos agency in 1951, and became a full member in 1957...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPhotographer
Date of Birth21 April 1912
CountryUnited States of America
numbers attention lessons
Lesson number one: Pay attention to the intrusion of the camera.
I find going back through things sometimes exhilarating because I find things I didn't know I had, and sometimes it's very off putting because there are things I never quite finished, and there's nothing at all to do about it now.
I want the subject to be in control. Because they will give me something I couldn't possibly know about them.
assess brought define generally given hard image order pick point talk talking time trying
It's hard for me to assess what I brought because each time you pick up a camera and point it at a person, you're trying to define that person so to talk generally is difficult because I have to think of a given image in order to conjure up what we're talking about.
art sex thinking
...if you think of modern art like sex in all its forms - heterosexual, bisexual, homosexual, multipartnered, bestial, whatever, with absolutely no holds barred and with everything available and permissible - that would be modern art.
fun men being-a-woman
Being a woman is just a marvelous plus in photographing. Men like to be photographed by women, it becomes flirtatious and fun, and women feel less as if they're expected to be in a relationship.
theme again-and-again
Themes recur again and again in my work.
careers long mind
I had in mind a long career.
people ordinary lenses
I don't see anybody as either ordinary or extraordinary. I see them simply as people in front of my lens.
cameras i-can
I can't hold a camera anymore.
photography accidents
I came to photography by accident.
trying special world
It's the hardest thing in the world to take the mundane and try to show how special it is.
serious journalism realizing
I realize that I had the best of serious picture journalism.
photography chance genre
A studio session ... provides the greatest chance for control. Even though there is total freedom, I still dislike studio photography and the contrived images that usually stem from this genre.