{"id":1505,"date":"2012-01-06T11:24:47","date_gmt":"2012-01-06T11:24:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/?p=1505"},"modified":"2012-01-06T11:24:47","modified_gmt":"2012-01-06T11:24:47","slug":"eve-arnold-1912-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/?p=1505","title":{"rendered":"Eve Arnold 1912-2012"},"content":{"rendered":"

Eve Arnold<\/strong> joined Magnum 60 years ago and became a full member in 1957. She was just around a hundred days short of a hundred years when she died on Wednesday, though I read she had not taken any pictures for five years or so, but certainly hers was a remarkable career.<\/p>\n

There are 50 pictures in her Magnum portfolio<\/a>, and perhaps the one I like best is an image of Marlene Dietrich taken in 1952. Somehow I find much of her later work a little disappointing, though perhaps I should warm to a photographer who could make Margaret Thatcher look so ill at ease. But that is a picture that for me at least just does not work. There are also several books <\/a>on the Magnum site, and for me the best is Flashback! the Fifties<\/a>. Of course she was a very good photographer, but I don’t feel she really lived up to the promise of this early work, becoming an excellent and dependable but rather corporate Magnum photographer, losing the excitement.<\/p>\n

Arnold was best known for her pictures of Marilyn Monroe<\/a>, and looking through these 62 images at Magnum there are indeed some fine pictures, but also others that seem rather ordinary. Some pictures show a great intimacy and give us some insight into the life and person of the star, but others seem more typical Hollywood publicity.<\/p>\n

It is perhaps appropriate that the Monroe Gallery in Santa Fe, New Mexico, despite being named after its owners and not the star, should be collating a list of links to tributes to Eve Arnold<\/a> , all of which I imagine will be rather more fulsome than mine. The Monroe gallery <\/a>site, currently showing an exhibition of work, mainly portraits, by John Loengard is also worth a look, and I note that the Dietrich picture is one of three of Arnold’s works on it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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