American, 1912 - 2012
Eve Arnold was born in
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to Russian immigrant parents. She began
photographing in 1946, while working at a photo-finishing plant in New
York City, and then studied photography in 1948 with Alexei Brodovitch
at the New School for Social Research in New York.
Arnold first
became associated with Magnum Photos in 1951, and became a full member
in 1957. She was based in the US during the 1950s but went to England in
1962 to put her son through school; except for a six-year interval when
she worked in the US and China, she lived in the UK for the rest of her
life.
Eve Arnold photographed many of the iconic figures who shaped the second half of the twentieth century, yet she was equally comfortable documenting the lives of the poor and dispossessed, “migrant workers, civil-rights protestors of apartheid in South Africa, disabled Vietnam war veterans and Mongolian herdsmen.” For Arnold, there was no dichotomy: “"I don't see anybody as either ordinary or extraordinary," she said in a 1990 BBC interview, "I see them simply as people in front of my lens.” Arnold was particularly noted for her work using available light, concentrating on the image in the lens and eschewing extensive use of photographic lighting and flash.
References: http://www.magnumphotos.com/C.aspxVP3=CMS3&VF=MAGO31_9_VForm&ERID=24KL53ZGM6
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eve_Arnold
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