EVE ARNOLD

Eve Arnold was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to Russian immigrant parents. She began photographing in 1946 and then studied underneath Alexei Brodovitch in 1948. Arnold became associated with Magnum Photos in 1951 and became a full member in 1957. Most of her work early in her career was based in the US, but she soon started to live in England and then spent six years in China before settling in the United Kingdom for the rest of her life. Her time in China led to her first major solo exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum in 1980, where she showed the resulting images. Arnold continued to receive awards and honors through her entire career until her death in January of 2012.


Arnold was mostly known as a photojournalist, but after looking through her works and photographs her works feels more like portraiture. I absolutely love all her work though, for example, the one picture I posted below of Marilyn Monroe I loved the most. I like how the picture has such a candid feeling to it, like how the picture doesn’t feel posed. Arnold also shows great work both in color and in black and white, many photographers have trouble mastering both, but I think Arnold had the talent and understanding of both.