American - Photographer | April 21, 1912 - January 4, 2012
Themes recur again and again in my work.
Eve Arnold
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I realize that I had the best of serious picture journalism.
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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.
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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.
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What has changed is that when I photographed, most people that I photographed didn't have the right of refusal on their work. It would take a Marilyn Monroe at her height to be able to dictate that.
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What I have tried to do is involve the people I was photographing... if they were willing to give, I was willing to photograph.
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I can't hold a camera anymore.
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I want the subject to be in control. Because they will give me something I couldn't possibly know about them.
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You should never reveal your true age.
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If you are careful with people, they will offer you part of themselves. That is the big secret.
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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.
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What you need to be a good photographer is an overwhelming curiosity and a good digestion. Sometimes you feel blessed with curiosity, sometimes you feel cursed with it.
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