American - Photographer | April 21, 1912 - January 4, 2012
It is the photographer, not the camera, that is the instrument.
Eve Arnold
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If a photographer cares about the people before the lens and is compassionate, much is given.
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I don't see anybody as either ordinary or extraordinary. I see them simply as people in front of my lens.
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What do you hang on the walls of your mind?
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I love the idea I can go off with a single camera and a few rolls of film unencumbered... I was not interested in the illusion of reality, I wanted to get close to what was happening.
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Lesson number one: Pay attention to the intrusion of the camera.
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What drove me and kept me going over the decades? If I had to use a single word, it would be 'curiosity.'
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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.
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It doesn't matter if you use a box camera or you use a Leica; the important thing is what motivates you when you are photographing.
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I look for a sense of reality with everything I did. I didn't work in a studio, I didn't light anything. I found a way of working which pleased me because I didn't have to frighten people with heavy equipment. It was that little black box and me and £5 worth of film in my pocket or maybe it was only £2 in those days.
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I had in mind a long career.
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I came to photography by accident.
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