My journey ends here...
ARNOLD Eve
Date of birth : April 21, 1912, Philadelphia (Pennsylvania).
Date of death: January 4, 2012, London.
Practise : photographer at the Magnum Agency.
She won several awards to grant her career as a photographer.
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Place of living : London.
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Her parents were Jewish immigrants from Russia; her father, William (Velvet Sklarski) who was a rabbi and her mother Bessie Cohen (Bosya Laschiner) had 9 children.She began to study photography in 1946 in New York City, then from 1947 to 1948 with Alexei Brodovitch (art
director of Harper's Bazaar) at the New York City's New School for Social Research.
She was the first woman photographer of the Magnum agency in 1951, before becoming a permanent member in 1955.
In the United States, she performed several reporting about women who
belonged to the most various backgrounds, and to who she wanted to give
a real image, "non retouched". It was in this context that the
pictitres of Marlene Dietrich andMarilyn Monroe appeared.
In 1952, she attended to
the recording of Marlene Dietrich's record at the Columbia Records, New
York City, and took several pictures :
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She lived in the United States in the 50's and left to live in England in 1962. She had a son, named Francis.
In 1955 at the Actors Studio 
Link with Marilyn
On August 6, 1955 : Marilyn invited her for a professionnal trip to Bement (Illinois) where she had to inaugurate a museum dedicated to Abraham Lincoln.
Chicago Airport
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Arriving in Bement
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At the primitive art exhibition
At the Lincoln Museum
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Break during the merry-making
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Portrait
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Various places
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Leaving Bement
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Dress
Labor Day Week-end, September 3, 4 and 5, 1955
Miller Place
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black and white bathsuit
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New York City, February 6, 1956 : she took pictures of Marilyn at the Plaza Hotel, during the press conference given for the announcement of the shooting of "The Prince and the Showgirl"
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In 1959, during the shooting of "The Best of Everything" in Hollywood, with Joan Crawford :
1960 : she attended to the shooting of "The Misfits" in Reno, Nevada. Eve Arnold belonged to the Magnum Agency which had obtained the scoop of the shooting pictures.
Pictures of the shooting
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Casino
with John Huston
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White blouse
with Arthur Miller
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with Clark Gable
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with the crew
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with John Huston
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with Montgomery Clift
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with Whitey Snyder
Dressing-gown
with Arthur Miller
with Clark Gable
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Cherry dress
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with Clark Gable
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with Evelyn Moriarty
with people from Reno
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with Nancy Taylor
with Paula Strasberg
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with Ralph Roberts
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Denim jacket
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White blouse
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Bathsuit
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Bed scene
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Red car
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October 29, 1960 : picture session in Los Angeles
Bathsuit
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black rustle
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Sheets
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With the crew of the session
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1960, at the White House 
In 1961, she went to London where she settled down. During the following years, she travelled as a photoreporter in the former Soviet Union, in Afghanistan, Egypt and China.
She took pictures of Marilyn, at her home, being combed by the hairdresser Kenneth in March 1961, after she had left the hospital :
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In 1962, Marilyn invited her at the Madison Square Garden for the John Kennedy birthday party; Eve, not available this night, was replaced by Isadore Miller .
In 1963, on the stage of "Becket" in England
In 1966, on the set of "The Countess of hong Kong"
Angelica Huston, in Ireland, 1967 :
1978 :
Dirk Bogard in London : 
M.Thatcher et Indira Gandhi, House of Parliament : 
In 1979, on the set of "Clash of the Titans", in England
The same year she received the National Book Award for her book about China, and the Lifetime Achievment Award from the American Society of Magazine Photographers.
In 1995, she was elected the "Master Photographer" (the most prestigious of the world dinstinctions in photography) by the Royal Photographic Society,which was given to her at the New York's International Center of Photography.
In 1986 she won the Kraszna-Krausz Book Award for her book "In Retrospect".
In 1987, she received the Honorary Degree of Doctor of Science from St Andrew University in Scoltland, the Honorary Degree of Doctor of Letters frome de Staffordshire University, and also the Doctor of Humanities from Richmont, the International American University in London.The same year she was named member of the Advisory Committe of the National Museum of Photography, Film & Television in Bradford.
In 2003, she was honored with the Order of the British Empire from the British Government.
Bibliography"The Unretouched Woman" 1976
"Flashback : the 50's" 1978
"In China" 1980
"In America" 1983
"Marilyn for Ever" 1987
"Marilyn Monroe. An Appreciation" 1987
"Private View : Inside Baryshnikov's American Ballet Theatre" 1988
"All in a Day's Work". 1989
"The Great British" 1991
"In Retrospect" 1995
"Magna Brava : Magnum's Women Photographers (with Inge Morath, Susan Meiselas, Martine Franck and Marilyn Silverstone)". November 1999.
Website
www.magnumarchives.com
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