Eve Arnold

Eve Arnold ( born Eve Cohen; * April 21, 1912 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, † January 4, 2012 in London) was an American photographer. It was in 1951 as the first woman member of Magnum Photos since 1957, she was a full member.

Life and work

Her parents were Russian-Jewish immigrants, her father Rabbi. Eve was born as the middle child of nine children. Your parents would have preferred if she had completed her medical studies, but Eve began to devote himself to photography in 1946, when her then-boyfriend her a Rolleicord - a simple reflex - gave. In 1948 she lent itself within six weeks of the photographers craft with her ​​mentor Alexei Brodowitsch, the art director of Harper 's Bazaar, on. In 1948 she married the industrial designer Arnold Arnold; a year later the son Frank was born. The family settled permanently in 1961 from New York to Great Britain to.

Marilyn Monroe was reading the early 1950s an article with Arnold's photos of Marlene Dietrich and then took up with her contact. In six meetings between the two women created portraits of Monroe. Monroe invited in 1955 by Eve Arnold, a Bement, Illinois, where the actress opened a museum about Abraham Lincoln. While shooting for the film Misfits - The Misfits (1961 ) in Reno (Nevada ) had the Magnum photo agency, the rights for the stills. Magnum sent except Arnold Henri Cartier -Bresson and Ernst Haas, and Bruce Davidson to the shooting. Carmen Boker According to Arnold has greatly influenced the idea of posterity by Marilyn Monroe: " This can be done the fact that they like when completely submerged reading shows - again, it is the book chosen for the colorful striped swimsuit Ulysses by James Joyce. A decade has accompanied the actress Arnold, she was like it is, from all that photographers who trusted the most Monroe. With the filming of Misfits arise black white psychograms - behind the clear, peroxide-blonde shine, the experienced smile and the refinement of the eyes is a premium desperation and fragility, which can only increase the beauty of appearance. "

Eve Arnold photographed celebrities such as Queen Elizabeth II, Malcolm X, and Joan Crawford. From their political reporting, inter alia, by Republican Party days, prick her portraits of U.S. presidents' wives out in particular, including a documentary about Jacqueline Kennedy. Eve Arnold has also people in the easiest and most precarious photographed, so in a Cuban brothel in South African slums; the glamouriöse side of the world she showed when she accompanied the birth of "Swinging London " and more than 40 film productions of Hollywood watching on the set. From many visits Arab hammams and harems, she produced the 1971 film Women behind the veil.

She traveled in her photographer working for Magnum many countries to politically charged times, when there was still the Iron Curtain, including China, South Africa, the Soviet Union and Afghanistan. 1980 showed the Brooklyn Museum in New York with their established at 60,000 kilometers, China photographs her first solo exhibition; it was in 1979 was one of the first Western journalists who could travel to Communist China.

Eve Arnold last lived in England and was a respected member of the British photography scene. She leaves in her paintings as a result of a worldwide Chronicle restless travel, a photojournalistic work as a kaleidoscope of different people in a separate, compositionally rigorous visual language: a total of an archive of more than 750,000 photographs.

At her 100th birthday were exhibitions in San Francisco and in London's Victoria & Albert Museum; The publisher teNeues published in January 2012, an accompanying catalog All about Eve.

Eve Arnold died shortly before this striking birthday with 99 years on January 4, 2012 in a London nursing home.

Book publications

  • The Unretouched Woman, 1976
  • Flashback: The 50's 1978
  • In China, 1980
  • In America, 1983
  • Marilyn for Ever, 1987
  • Marilyn Monroe: An Appreciation, 1987
  • All in a Day 's Work, 1989
  • The Great British, 1991
  • In Retrospect, 1995
  • Film Journal, 2002
  • Handbook, 2004
  • Marilyn Monroe, 2005
  • Eve Arnold 's People, 2009
  • All about Eve, 2012
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