Marilyn Monroe: An Appreciation

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Eve Arnold to receive Lifetime Achievement Award at Sony World Photography Awards 2010". Aesthetica . Retrieved 2019-06-12. The pioneering photo-journalist, Eve Arnold, died on January 4th, 2012, at a London nursing home, three months short of her centenary.

I’m going to bring art to the masses,” Marilyn said. She wrote a speech about Lincoln on the plane to Chicago, and rehearsed it with her hairdresser, Peter Leonardi, and Eve, who remarked, “As she whispered the words of the talk about ‘our late, beloved President,’ it sounded like Eisenhower, not Lincoln, had just died.”Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1912, Arnold began taking photographs in New York in 1946, when she was working in a photo-finishing plant. The start of her career coincided with the advent of humanitarian photography, a genre she would later become a figurehead of through her reportage of the civil rights movement, poverty in South Africa and the political prisoners of Soviet Russia.

When I turned up late to her flat one day Eve decided to give me guidance on punctuality. But it felt like a friend giving some loving advice. Although Arnold’s career continually focused on women and overlapped with the Women’s Liberation Movement of the 1960s and 1970s, she resisted the ‘feminist’ label. “She was reluctant to even describe herself as a female photographer,” Michael says. “She found the need to distinguish male and female photographers quite artificial and frustrating, even though she certainly experienced some of the challenges of being one of the few women in her field.”What’s more, the issues she photographed - racial equality, religion, sexuality, human rights, abuse of power, fame and personality couldn’t me more relevant to today’s world. By understanding our past, current events can be seen clearly in context. As the Sixties began, Eve photographed the new First Lady, Jacqueline Kennedy, reading to her young daughter. She travelled to Virginia to document the emerging Civil Rights movement. She looked fresh and rested, and she and Kenneth played up for the camera, she teasing him about his showing the more photogenic side of his face,” Eve observed. “We did just one roll of film. It was a simple photo and I did not want to tire her.” In late 1962, Arnold moved to London to be near her son, Frank, who had enrolled at an English boarding school. They arrived just as the coldest winter in a century began. “We were not used to the gloom,” Eve admitted. “We were accustomed to overheated rooms and changing seasons that brightened the year…The endless grey and chill days of England seemed like a punishment and added to our sadness at the sudden changes in our lives.” Eve Arnold was a pioneering photojournalist whose work spanned politics, celebrity and the everyday lives of subjects in countries around the world, from Cuba to Mongolia.