1. Eve Arnold, OBE, FRPS was an American photojournalist, long-resident in the UK.
19 Facts About Eve Arnold
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Eve Arnold joined Magnum Photos agency in 1951, and became a full member in 1957.
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Eve Arnold frequently photographed Marilyn Monroe, including candid-style photos on the set of The Misfits.
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Eve Arnold then became interested in African American migrant workers suffering housing discrimination in Long Island.
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Eve Arnold became the first woman to join the Magnum Agency, becoming a full member in 1957.
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Eve Arnold was well aware of the underrepresentation of women photojournalists and the position of women celebrities in the public eye.
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Eve Arnold explored these ideas about women in her full length photo book The Unretouched Woman which was published in 1976.
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Eve Arnold befriended Monroe, Joan Crawford, and many other subjects in order to write about them and photograph them better.
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Eve Arnold produced a film in 1971, Women Behind the Veil, focusing on Arabian harems and hammams.
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Eve Arnold photographed famous figures such as Queen Elizabeth II, Malcolm X, Marlene Dietrich, and Joan Crawford, and traveled around the world, photographing in China, Russia, South Africa and Afghanistan.
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Eve Arnold left the United States and moved permanently to England in the early 1970s with her son, Francis Eve Arnold.
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Eve Arnold alternated between taking glamorous photos of cinema stars and portraits of everyday life and experiences.
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The hardest task for Eve Arnold was to make the mundane interesting.
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Eve Arnold was one of only five women in the catalogued touring exhibition Magna Brava.
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Eve Arnold photographed disabled veterans, herders in Mongolia, and women in brothels.
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In 1960, Eve Arnold did a series of portraits of American First Ladies including Jackie Kennedy, Lady Bird Johnson, and Pat Nixon.
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Eve Arnold was appointed an Honorary Officer of the Order of the British Empire in 2003.
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Eve Arnold describes in her diary entry of that day the bond between photographer, subject, and camera that is necessary for a portrait.
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Eve Arnold continued to stress her style of simplicity in photos with natural lighting and lack of posing and embellishments.