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Lesson number one: Pay attention to the intrusion of the camera.

~Eve Arnold

Topics: Attention Camera Lesson Number Pay Pay Attention

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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.

~Eve Arnold

Topics: About Affected Am Been Birth Child Document Had How Interested Know Lives Lost Obsessed Our Our Lives Politics Poor Poverty Wanted Woman Women I Am

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Themes recur again and again in my work.

~Eve Arnold

Topics: Again Recur Themes Work

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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.

~Eve Arnold

Topics: Camera Close Few Film Get Go Happening Idea Illusion Interested Love Not Interested Off Reality Rolls Single Wanted I Love I Can

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I realize that I had the best of serious picture journalism.

~Eve Arnold

Topics: Best Had Journalism Picture Realize Serious

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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.

~Eve Arnold

Topics: Approach Aware Believed Best Condition Could Had Help Holding How Human Human Condition Innocence Journalism Little Make Matter Mirror Our People Picture Realise Serious Up World 1950S 1960S

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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.

~Eve Arnold

Topics: Anything Because Black Box Days Did Equipment Everything Film Found Frighten Heavy Light Little Look Maybe Me Only People Pleased Pocket Reality Sense Studio Those Way Which Work Working Worth

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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.

~Eve Arnold

Topics: About Assess Because Brought Camera Define Difficult Each Each Time Generally Given Hard Image Me Order Person Pick Point Talk Talking Think Time Trying Up You

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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.

~Eve Arnold

Topics: Box Camera Important Important Thing Matter Motivates Photographing Thing Use You

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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.

~Eve Arnold

Topics: Able Changed Dictate Height Her Marilyn Marilyn Monroe Monroe Most People Photographed Refusal Right Take Work Would

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Photographer

Born: April 21st, 1912

Died: January 4th, 2012

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