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Eve
"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."
-Eve Arnold
Eve Arnold on the set of Becket. ©Robert Penn. 1963 © Eve Arnold/Magnum Photos
©Eve Arnold
©Bill Jay
©Eve Arnold/Magnum Photos, The Brooklyn Museum
Marilyn Monroe with Arthur Miller in 1960 captured by Eve Arnold.
Eve Arnold wanted to be a writer or a dancer and came to photography by chance, so she toked a 6 week class with Alexei Brodovitch at the New School for Social Research, New York. The year 1948 (the year of graduation), was an important one in her life: while managing a photo-finishing plant she started experimenting with a camera. Using a Rolleicord, Eve completed her first assignment shooting a fashion show in Harlem in a square, black and white format. “It was daunting,” she recalls, “to bring my pale face into that all-black audience and get up enough courage to put my camera into their faces.”
In 1951, Arnold was one of the very few women to join Magnum as an associate. This happened as a result of the fact that Brodovitch found her work fresh and encouraged her to keep on photographing in Harlem. Arnold became a member of Magnum later on in 1955. From then on she worked on numerous reportages for Life, Vogue, Paris Match, Stern and the Sunday Times, traveling in Europe, the US, South America, India and Afghanistan on assignment and working in-depth in the USSR on three successive trips. She became famous for her portraits of celebrities including Marilyn Monroe, Marlene Dietrich, John Huston, Clark Gable, Joan Crawford, the Queen of England, Richard Nixon, Senator Joseph McCarthy and Malcolm X. Her book of memoirs on the 1950′s, published with her own text, explores the growing prominence of media on society.
Eve Arnold Photography
In 1961 she moved to London. At the beginning of the 1970′s Eve photographed the life of veiled women in Egypt, Afghanistan and Abu Dhabi, and then the South African apartheid. In 1979 Eve Arnold traveled to China for another photographic documentary, where she received a National Book Award an year later. After shooting in Britain and the USA Eve has traveled back to Cuba, documenting the descendants of families she had photographed there three decades ago.
Eve Arnold Photography
The most important prizes include:
Kraszna Krausz award for the best book of photography for “In Retrospect”
International Center of Photography’s master photographer award for lifetime achievement.
Books:
The Great British. Photographs by Eve Arnold. New York, 1991 (photo-eye Cat# KN044)
All in a Day’s Work. Photographs by Eve Arnold. New York, 1989 (photo-eye Cat# BA003)
Marilyn Monroe. An Appreciation. Photographs and text by Eve Arnold. New York, 1987 (photo-eye Cat# KN032)
In China. Photographs and text by Eve Arnold. New York, 1980 (photo-eye Cat# KN009)
-Eve Arnold
Eve Arnold on the set of Becket. ©Robert Penn. 1963 © Eve Arnold/Magnum Photos
©Eve Arnold
©Bill Jay
©Eve Arnold/Magnum Photos, The Brooklyn Museum
Marilyn Monroe with Arthur Miller in 1960 captured by Eve Arnold.
Eve Arnold wanted to be a writer or a dancer and came to photography by chance, so she toked a 6 week class with Alexei Brodovitch at the New School for Social Research, New York. The year 1948 (the year of graduation), was an important one in her life: while managing a photo-finishing plant she started experimenting with a camera. Using a Rolleicord, Eve completed her first assignment shooting a fashion show in Harlem in a square, black and white format. “It was daunting,” she recalls, “to bring my pale face into that all-black audience and get up enough courage to put my camera into their faces.”
In 1951, Arnold was one of the very few women to join Magnum as an associate. This happened as a result of the fact that Brodovitch found her work fresh and encouraged her to keep on photographing in Harlem. Arnold became a member of Magnum later on in 1955. From then on she worked on numerous reportages for Life, Vogue, Paris Match, Stern and the Sunday Times, traveling in Europe, the US, South America, India and Afghanistan on assignment and working in-depth in the USSR on three successive trips. She became famous for her portraits of celebrities including Marilyn Monroe, Marlene Dietrich, John Huston, Clark Gable, Joan Crawford, the Queen of England, Richard Nixon, Senator Joseph McCarthy and Malcolm X. Her book of memoirs on the 1950′s, published with her own text, explores the growing prominence of media on society.
Eve Arnold Photography
In 1961 she moved to London. At the beginning of the 1970′s Eve photographed the life of veiled women in Egypt, Afghanistan and Abu Dhabi, and then the South African apartheid. In 1979 Eve Arnold traveled to China for another photographic documentary, where she received a National Book Award an year later. After shooting in Britain and the USA Eve has traveled back to Cuba, documenting the descendants of families she had photographed there three decades ago.
Eve Arnold Photography
The most important prizes include:
Kraszna Krausz award for the best book of photography for “In Retrospect”
International Center of Photography’s master photographer award for lifetime achievement.
Books:
The Great British. Photographs by Eve Arnold. New York, 1991 (photo-eye Cat# KN044)
All in a Day’s Work. Photographs by Eve Arnold. New York, 1989 (photo-eye Cat# BA003)
Marilyn Monroe. An Appreciation. Photographs and text by Eve Arnold. New York, 1987 (photo-eye Cat# KN032)
In China. Photographs and text by Eve Arnold. New York, 1980 (photo-eye Cat# KN009)
Saturday, July 31, 2010
it would mean the world to me
if you could stop by tonight...
as you may or may not know, I'm contemplating a move to Chicago at the end of the summer (fingers crossed, if my job prospects come through) and so this may be my last Dallas show for awhile.
Plus, I promise it will be really fun!
Here's how it works, when you arrive and if you'd like to purchase art, you can draw a number for $20, then you match up that number with the corresponding print on exhibit.
get there early because we may sell out of numbers before the night is over.
this exhibit and project is close to my heart because it benefits the kids I've been working with this summer as part of the Food on the Move program with Americorps & Central Dallas Ministries. (watch the video below and turn up your volume)
The Hip Shootout: The Hipstas vs the Droids is TONIGHT at the UTD Visual Arts Gallery
Thanks SO MUCH to the Artists who donated their work for this show and A VERY SPECIAL THANKS to our badass Sponsors
as you may or may not know, I'm contemplating a move to Chicago at the end of the summer (fingers crossed, if my job prospects come through) and so this may be my last Dallas show for awhile.
Plus, I promise it will be really fun!
Here's how it works, when you arrive and if you'd like to purchase art, you can draw a number for $20, then you match up that number with the corresponding print on exhibit.
get there early because we may sell out of numbers before the night is over.
this exhibit and project is close to my heart because it benefits the kids I've been working with this summer as part of the Food on the Move program with Americorps & Central Dallas Ministries. (watch the video below and turn up your volume)
The Hip Shootout: The Hipstas vs the Droids is TONIGHT at the UTD Visual Arts Gallery
Thanks SO MUCH to the Artists who donated their work for this show and A VERY SPECIAL THANKS to our badass Sponsors
Sunday, July 18, 2010
do you shoot with your phone?
if yes, please consider submitting your images to the Hip Shootout.
We'd love to have you.
Details are here.
We'd love to have you.
Details are here.
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