Eve Arnold: In Retrospect [Hardcover]

Eve Arnold (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 17, 1995

With 48 black-and-white and 47 full-color photographs.

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

An early member of the prestigious postwar cooperative Magnum Photos, Arnold (The Unretouched Woman), for much of a half-century career in photojournalism, arranged her own assignments. For Life, London's Sunday Colour and other top magazines worldwide, she covered screen stars Joan Crawford and Marilyn Monroe;a colony of centenarians in Georgia, U.S.S.R.; Vatican City, body and soul; and a Dubai wedding featuring a camel race?to name but a few. She did photo-profiles of Indira Gandhi, Mamie Eisenhower, Mikhail Baryshnikov and British PM John Major; publicity stills for The Misfits and several other John Huston films; a number of advertising spreads; and eight text-and-picture books. In an engaging mixture of pride, self-deprecation, personal sentiment and philosophical reflection ("photography flourishes on the absolute"), she here gives a top practitioner's clear and authoritative (if often overly detailed) account of 20th-century photojournalism, now deteriorating, she fears, into "glitz and packaging." Photos.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From Library Journal

More than a memoir of a well-known photographer, this is a first person history of photojournalism in the 20th century. The opening chapters cover the fertile and formative years of Magnum. As its second woman member, Arnold offers an insider's view of the renowned photography agency with Robert Capa at the helm. Her early images?a conversation between Senator Joseph McCarthy and Roy Cohn, Eisenhower being surprised by the press right after receiving the presidential nomination?exhibit a sense of timing, curiosity, and technical skill that have produced long-lived, often prophetic images. By mid-career she had mastered a rapport with her subjects that allowed her unique access to the off-camera faces of such famous actresses as Joan Crawford and Marilyn Monroe, a "Hollywood legend who runs like a thread" through Arnold's work of the 1950s. The 95 images combine with her articulate and entertaining observations on both her subjects and the process of photography make for a visual and narrative treat that will appeal to a broad audience. For most photography collections.?Kathy J. Anderson, Indiana Ctr. for Global Business, Indiana Univ., Bloomington
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 289 pages
• Publisher: Knopf; 1st edition (October 17, 1995)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0394578503
• ISBN-13: 978-0394578507
• Product Dimensions: 11 x 9.4 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.5 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #851,518 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars An autobiography of her career., January 24, 1998

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This review is from: Eve Arnold: In Retrospect (Hardcover)

I enjoyed the story behind the photos. It is an interesting look at the photographer, more revealing than Magaret Bourke-Whites biography. If anything is lacking, it could have included more photos.