With the new year brought the passing of a much accredited, magnificent photographer, Eve Arnold. The Philadelphia born photographer, widely recognised for her intimate photographs of Marylin Monroe, would have been 100 years of age in April. With her Naturalist style of Portature, Arnold caputed such photos as the 'Bar girl in a brothel in the red light district, Havanna, 1954' - inset. in 1951 she became the first female photographer to join the Magnum photographic agency.
Although widely famed for her shots of famous stars of the Twentith Century, Arnold didn't forget her past, documenting the lives of the poor in Cuba, Russia and China, to name a few.
"I have been poor and I wanted to document poverty; I had lost a child and I was obsessed with birth; I was interested in politics and I wanted to know how it affected our lives; I am a woman and I wanted to know about women." - Arnold
I've only just started to search out photographers and their work, however Eve Arnold is certainly a great inspiration and one of my favorites, already.
Bar girl in brothel, Cuba, 1954.
Charlotte Stribling
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