Photo Essay

Eve Arnold

Eve Arnold is one of the most famous portrait photographers to represented Magnum Photography. Arnold moved to England in the early 60's and take some of the most famous photography of Queen Elizabeth II. In 1980 the American Society of Magazine Photographers awarded Arnold a Lifetime Achievement Award. She is known for her brilliant shots of Marilyn Monroe, many of which were taken in 1960 on the set of "The Misfits". 

Eva Arnold had an amazing ability of get close to people; to capture their character in those rare moments, this really defined her as a photographer. She was the first female member to join Magnum in New York in 1951, which put her beside the greats of that era such as Robert Capa and Henri Cartier-Bresson. During her career, she photographed Hollywood stars and Joe McCarthy, Francis Bacon and Isabella Rossellini. 


Eve Arnold is a photojournalist possibly the ultimate kind of photojournalist, since her work in the field of reportage includes interviewing and writing to complement her photographs. Eve Arnold has traveled the world as a photojournalist, working primarily for Life magazine and the Sunday Times, she spent ten years as a contract photographer. 

Eve was able to deal with and photograph some of the trickiest stars of Hollywood: Joan Crawford, Monroe and Marlene Dietrich. She was the first photographer to snap movie stars and movie sets as reportage, as the portrait in action, rather than the usual set up studio shots, which hides and masked the personalities of the stars. She captured those moments when a face is unguarded and the character is revealed. Being one of the few female photographers could be an advantage. She was able to be part of the intimacy of the dressing room and beauty regimes with none of the awkwardness of a male photographer. And actresses seemed unusually willing to bare themselves to her.

Eve Arnold shots the truth, she has photography that is studio set up, which is absolutely beautiful, my favorite photographs are the ones with Marilyn Monroe as the subject. "Arnold’s photographs of Marilyn are unique.  Unusually benevolent, these intimate photos of Marilyn Monroe expose the icon’s personality rather than her flesh.  In these photos we see a person, not a sex object; a human, not any kind of object at all."Arnold captures the beauty in her subjects every time, being a serious shoot or a playful shoot there is always an exhilarating vibrancy of exquisiteness in every photograph. Eve Arnold also branched out into shooting photographs in the moment, in doing so capturing true emotions in her subjects face, not set up. These photographs are brilliant they capture all the true emotions in her subjects, the sore (in her Hati shoot), and happiness (in her Cuba Island Girl shoot).

Below are a few examples of Eve Arnolds photography below.

USA. Marilyn MONROE (USA). Actress & singer 1955- E.Arnold

HAITI. Insane Asylum. 1954- E.Arnold 

CUBA. Island girl. 1954- E.Arnol

USA. Nevada and California."The Misfits", a film
by John HUSTON. 1960.. E.Arnold

Below are photographs that remind me of the work of Eve Arnold:

Turkairo

This photograph reminds me of Eve Arnold's Hati Shoot.

This photograph reminds me of Eve Arnold's in the moment Marilyn Monroe shoots.

 

This photograph reminds me of Eve Arnold's studio Marilyn Monroe shoots.

This photograph reminds me of Eve Arnold's Vintage family shoots.

This 3 photographs above remind me of Eve Arnold's  Marilyn Monroe shoots, which are me favourite, serious shots yet there is a glow of beauty projecting off the subject.

As Arnold wrote in a memoir, In Retrospect: "If the photographer has forged a relationship which permits an atmosphere in which the subject feels relaxed and safe, there is an intimacy that allows the person being photographed to be uninhibited and to reveal unknown aspects of herself."

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