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 digestion needs
What you need to be a good photographer is an overwhelming curiosity and a good digestion.
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.
moving skills target
Recording sessions were stimulating to photograph, because everything was in motion: the subject, the musicians, the technicians and the photographer. You needed fast reflexes to keep up with moving targets, and sensitivity and skill to get the pictures while keeping out of the performers' eyeline so as not to break their concentration.
stars two long
If the chemistry is right between star and photographer and the geometry of the pictures pleases the star, often the two people end up with a long-term professional friendship during which they continue to work together and to produce highly personal images.
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.
reality ideas cameras
I love the idea I can go off with a single camera and a few rolls of film unencumbered... I was not interested in the illusion of reality, I wanted to get close to what was happening.
reality light people
I look for a sense of reality with everything I did. I didn't work in a studio, I didn't light anything. 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 and £5 worth of film in my pocket or maybe it was only £2 in those days.
thinking frustration satisfied
I think if I ever get satisfied, I’ll have to stop. It’s the frustration that drives you.
photography magic musician
You can't make a great musician or a great photographer if the magic isn't there.
want limits cameras
I didn't want to be a woman photographer. That would limit me. I wanted to be a photographer who was a woman, with all the world open to my camera.
children poverty birth
I have been poor and I wanted to document poverty; I had lost a child and I was obsessed with birth; I was interested in politics and I wanted to know how it affected our lives; I am a woman and I wanted to know about women.
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.
photography cameras photographer
The instrument is not the camera but the photographer.
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.