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Eve Arnold

American Photographer

Born: Apr 21, 1912

Died: Jan 4, 2012

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Related authors: Annie Leibovitz Ansel Adams Berenice Abbott Diane Arbus Dorothea Lange Gordon Parks Imogen Cunningham Robert Mapplethorpe

What do you hang on the walls of your mind? Eve Arnold

You Brainy Walls Mind Hang Your

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

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Lesson number one: Pay attention to the intrusion of the camera. Eve Arnold

Pay Pay Attention Lesson Intrusion Attention Camera Number

I had in mind a long career. Eve Arnold

Mind Long Long Career Had Career

I don't see anybody as either ordinary or extraordinary. I see them simply as people in front of my lens. Eve Arnold

People Extraordinary See Simply Front Anybody Ordinary Either Them Lens

I realise that I had the best of serious picture journalism. There was an innocence in our approach, especially in the 1950s and 1960s when we naively believed that by holding a mirror up to the world we could help - no matter how little - to make people aware of the human condition. Eve Arnold

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It's hard for me to assess what I brought because each time you pick up a camera and point it at a person, you're trying to define that person so to talk generally is difficult because I have to think of a given image in order to conjure up what we're talking about. Eve Arnold

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If a photographer cares about the people before the lens and is compassionate, much is given. Eve Arnold

People Before Cares Photographer About Given Lens Much Compassionate

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

People Willing Photograph Photographing Tried Give Involve Were

I can't hold a camera anymore. Eve Arnold

Camera Anymore Hold

You should never reveal your true age. Eve Arnold

You Age Never True Reveal Should Your

I find going back through things sometimes exhilarating because I find things I didn't know I had, and sometimes it's very off putting because there are things I never quite finished, and there's nothing at all to do about it now. Eve Arnold

Sometimes Finished Nothing Back Find About Through Never Had Putting Know Because Exhilarating Off Very Going Quite Now Things

Recording sessions were stimulating to photograph, because everything was in motion: the subject, the musicians, the technicians and the photographer. You needed fast reflexes to keep up with moving targets, and sensitivity and skill to get the pictures while keeping out of the performers' eyeline so as not to break their concentration. Eve Arnold

You Musicians Recording Everything Out Photograph Photographer Performers Pictures Concentration Because Motion Stimulating Were Subject Up Targets Reflexes Get Break While Sensitivity Moving Skill Keep Fast Keeping Technicians Needed

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