Eve Arnold

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Eve Arnold (born Eve Cohen ; born April 21, 1912 in Philadelphia , Pennsylvania , † January 4, 2012 in London ) was an American photographer . She became the first woman to become a member of Magnum Photos in 1951 , and since 1957 she has been a full member.

Life

Her parents were Russian-Jewish immigrants, her father a rabbi . Eve was born the middle of nine children. Her parents would have preferred if she had finished her medical degree, but Eve took up photography in 1946 when her boyfriend at the time gave her a Rolleicord - a simple single-lens reflex camera . In 1948 she learned the photography trade within six weeks from her mentor Alexei Brodowitsch , the art director of Harper's Bazaar . In 1948 she married the industrial designer Arnold Arnold; a year later the son Frank was born. The family moved permanently from New York to the UK in 1961. In 1951, she was one of the first women to join the Magnum photo agency .

In the early 1950s, Marilyn Monroe read an article with Arnold's photos of Marlene Dietrich and then contacted her. In six meetings between the two women, portraits of the Monroe were taken. Monroe invited Eve Arnold to Bement, Illinois , in 1955 , where the actress opened a museum about Abraham Lincoln . During the shooting of the film Misfits (1961) in Reno, Nevada , the Magnum photo agency held the rights to the stills. In addition to Arnold, Magnum also sent Henri Cartier-Bresson and Ernst Haas as well as Bruce Davidson to the filming. According to Carmen Böker, Arnold has significantly influenced posterity's imagination: “This happens, for example, by the fact that she likes to show her while reading completely absorbed - one of them is the book Ulysses by James Joyce, which was chosen for the brightly striped bathing suit . Arnold accompanied the actress for a decade; it is said that of all the photographers she was the one who trusted Monroe the most. During the filming of Misfits black and white psychograms emerge - behind the light, hydrogen-blonde sheen, the accomplished smile and the refinement of the blink of an eye lies a despair and fragility that can only increase the beauty of the appearance. "

Eve Arnold has photographed celebrities including Queen Elizabeth II , Malcolm X and Joan Crawford . From their political reporting, u. a. of Republican party conventions, her portraits of US first wives stand out, including a report on Jacqueline Kennedy . Eve Arnold also photographed people in the simplest and most precarious conditions, for example in a Cuban brothel and in South African slums; she showed the glamorous side of the world when she accompanied the birth of "Swinging London" and watched more than 40 Hollywood film productions on the set. From many visits to Arab hammams and harems , she produced the film Women Behind the Veil in 1971 .

As a photographer for Magnum, she traveled to many countries at politically explosive times when the Iron Curtain still existed, including China , South Africa , the Soviet Union and Afghanistan . In 1980 the Brooklyn Museum in New York showed her first solo exhibition with her China photographs taken over 60,000 kilometers; in 1979 she was one of the first Western journalists to travel to communist China.

Eve Arnold lived in England after separating from her husband in 1960 until her death and was a respected member of the British photography scene. In her pictures she leaves a worldwide chronicle as the result of restless travel, a photojournalistic work as a kaleidoscope of the most diverse people in their own, compositionally strict imagery: a total of more than 750,000 recordings.

In 1995 she was admitted to the Royal Photographic Society . She was also a member of the Advisory Board of the National Museum of Photography, Film & Television in Bradford, UK .

On her 100th birthday, exhibitions were held in San Francisco and London's Victoria & Albert Museum ; the publisher teNeues published an accompanying catalog All about Eve in January 2012 .

Eve Arnold died shortly before this landmark birthday at the age of 99 on January 4, 2012 in a London nursing home.

Awards

Book publications

  • The Unretouched Woman , 1976
  • Flashback: The 50’s , 1978
  • In China , 1980
  • In America , 1983
  • Marilyn for Ever , 1987
  • Marilyn Monroe: An Appreciation , 1987
  • All in a Day's Work , 1989
  • The Great British , 1991
  • In Retrospect , 1995
  • Film Journal , 2002
  • Handbook , 2004
  • Marilyn Monroe , 2005
  • Eve Arnold's People , 2009
  • All about Eve , 2012

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Eve Arnold obituary In: The Guardian . January 5, 2012, accessed January 5, 2012
  2. ↑ Photographer Eve Arnold dies at 99. In: The Denver Post . January 5, 2012, accessed January 5, 2012
  3. ↑ a b Boris Friedewald : Eve Arnold . In: Boris Friedewald: Masters of Light: Great Women Photographers from Two Centuries . Prestel, Munich 2014, ISBN 978-3-7913-4673-1 , pp. 12-15
  4. ↑ Magnum Photos. Retrieved December 3, 2017 .
  5. ↑ a b c On the death of Eve Arnold: Moments with Marilyn. ( Memento from January 23, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) In: Frankfurter Rundschau. January 7, 2012, accessed January 8, 2012
  6. ↑ Magnum's first wife - photographer Eve dies; in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of January 6, 2012, No. 5, p. 31
  7. ^ Andrian Kreye : The Diva - The photographer Eve Arnold died shortly before her 100th birthday; in Süddeutsche Zeitung from 7./8. January 2012
  8. ^ A b Isabel Siben, Andréa Holzherr (Ed.): Eve Arnold Hommage . Schirmer / Mosel, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-8296-0601-1 .
  9. ↑ All about Eve. teNeues Verlag, 2012, ISBN 978-3-8327-9641-9 .
  10. ↑ a b Eve Arnold. In: Magnum Photos. Magnum Photos, accessed September 28, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Arnold, Eve
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American photographer
DATE OF BIRTH April 21, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH Philadelphia , Pennsylvania
DATE OF DEATH 4th January 2012
Place of death London