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The instrument is not the camera but the photographer.
Eve Arnold
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Eve Arnold
Age: 99 †
Born: 1912
Born: April 21
Died: 2012
Died: January 4
Journalist
Photographer
Photojournalist
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Eve Deborah Arnold
Eve Cohen
Eve Deborah Cohen
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More quotes by Eve Arnold
I love the idea I can go off with a single camera and a few rolls of film unencumbered... I was not interested in the illusion of reality, I wanted to get close to what was happening.
Eve Arnold
Being a woman is just a marvelous plus in photographing. Men like to be photographed by women, it becomes flirtatious and fun, and women feel less as if they're expected to be in a relationship.
Eve Arnold
...if you think of modern art like sex in all its forms - heterosexual, bisexual, homosexual, multipartnered, bestial, whatever, with absolutely no holds barred and with everything available and permissible - that would be modern art.
Eve Arnold
Themes recur again and again in my work.
Eve Arnold
I found a way of working which pleased me because I didn’t have to frighten people with heavy equipment. It was that little black box and me.
Eve Arnold
I didn't want to be a woman photographer. That would limit me. I wanted to be a photographer who was a woman, with all the world open to my camera.
Eve Arnold
I look for a sense of reality with everything I did. I didn't work in a studio, I didn't light anything. I found a way of working which pleased me because I didn't have to frighten people with heavy equipment. It was that little black box and me and £5 worth of film in my pocket or maybe it was only £2 in those days.
Eve Arnold
I came to photography by accident.
Eve Arnold
I think if I ever get satisfied, I’ll have to stop. It’s the frustration that drives you.
Eve Arnold
What you need to be a good photographer is an overwhelming curiosity and a good digestion.
Eve Arnold
What I have tried to do is involve the people I was photographing... if they were willing to give, I was willing to photograph.
Eve Arnold
I realize that I had the best of serious picture journalism.
Eve Arnold
If the chemistry is right between star and photographer and the geometry of the pictures pleases the star, often the two people end up with a long-term professional friendship during which they continue to work together and to produce highly personal images.
Eve Arnold
What has changed is that when I photographed, most people that I photographed didn't have the right of refusal on their work. It would take a Marilyn Monroe at her height to be able to dictate that.
Eve Arnold
What do you hang on the walls of your mind?
Eve Arnold
What drove me and kept me going over the decades? If I had to use a single word, it would be 'curiosity.
Eve Arnold
I don't see anybody as either ordinary or extraordinary. I see them simply as people in front of my lens.
Eve Arnold
Lesson number one: Pay attention to the intrusion of the camera.
Eve Arnold
