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
people ordinary lenses
I don't see anybody as either ordinary or extraordinary. I see them simply as people in front of my lens.
giving people leica
What I have tried to do is involve the people I was photographing... if they were willing to give, I was willing to photograph.
people height able
What has changed is that when I photographed, most people that I photographed didn't have the right of refusal on their work. It would take a Marilyn Monroe at her height to be able to dictate that.
mirrors people world
I realise that I had the best of serious picture journalism. There was an innocence in our approach, especially in the 1950s and 1960s when we naively believed that by holding a mirror up to the world we could help - no matter how little - to make people aware of the human condition.
people giving important
It doesn’t matter if you use a box camera or a Leica, the important thing is what motivates you when you are photographing. What I have tried to do is involve the people I was photographing. To have them realize without saying so, that it was up to them to give me whatever they wanted to give me . . . if they were willing to give, I was willing to photograph.
people black littles
I found a way of working which pleased me because I didn’t have to frighten people with heavy equipment. It was that little black box and me.
inspirational photography people
If the photographer is interested in the people in front of his lens, and if he is compassionate, it's already a lot. The instrument is not the camera but the photographer.
photography people lenses
If a photographer cares about the people before the lens and is compassionate, much is given. It is the photographer, not the camera, that is the instrument.
people secret bigs
If you are careful with people, they will offer you part of themselves. That is the big secret.
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.