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
curiosity use would-be
What drove me and kept me going over the decades? If I had to use a single word, it would be 'curiosity.
important use leica
It doesn't matter if you use a box camera or you use a Leica; the important thing is what motivates you when you are photographing.
special use like-her
I never knew anyone who came close to Marilyn in natural ability to use both photographer and still camera. She was special in this, and for me there has been no one like her before or after. She has remained the measuring rod by which I have - unconsciously - judged other subjects.
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.
numbers attention lessons
Lesson number one: Pay attention to the intrusion of the camera.
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.