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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
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Lesson number one: Pay attention to the intrusion of the camera.
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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.
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...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.
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I don't see anybody as either ordinary or extraordinary. I see them simply as people in front of my lens.
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I realize that I had the best of serious picture journalism.
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What I have tried to do is involve the people I was photographing... if they were willing to give, I was willing to photograph.
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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.
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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.
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I think if I ever get satisfied, I’ll have to stop. It’s the frustration that drives you.
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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.
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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.
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What you need to be a good photographer is an overwhelming curiosity and a good digestion.
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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.
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What drove me and kept me going over the decades? If I had to use a single word, it would be 'curiosity.
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The instrument is not the camera but the photographer.
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I came to photography by accident.
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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.
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What do you hang on the walls of your mind?
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