Eve Arnold Quotes

Photographer

Eve Arnold was a renowned photographer known for her profound insights into issues of gender and race. Her career spanned half a century, and her work was widely published in prestigious media such as Life magazine.

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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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Author:Eve Arnold

“If the photographer is interested in the people in front of his lens, and if he is compassionate, it's already a lot. The instrument is not the camera but the photographer.”

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“If a photographer cares about the people before the lens and is compassionate, much is given. It is the photographer, not the camera, that is the instrument.”

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Book:The Unretouched Woman

Source: The Unretouched Woman

“It doesn’t matter if you use a box camera or a Leica, the important thing is what motivates you when you are photographing. What I have tried to do is involve the people I was photographing. To have them realize without saying so, that it was up to them to give me whatever they wanted to give me . . . if they were willing to give, I was willing to photograph.”

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“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.”

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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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Author:Eve Arnold

“What I have tried to do is involve the people I was photographing... if they were willing to give, I was willing to photograph.”

People Ifs Giving Willing Photograph Leica

Author:Eve Arnold

“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 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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“If the chemistry is right between star and photographer and the geometry of the pictures pleases the star, often the two people end up with a long-term professional friendship during which they continue to work together and to produce highly personal images.”

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Book:Film Journal

Source: Film Journal

“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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Author:Eve Arnold

About the Author

Born: April 21, 1912
Died: January 4, 2012
Known for: Photographer
Quotes: 34

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Eve Arnold: in retrospectRelated source material

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