Eve Arnold's People

A survey of the career and work of the photographer Eve Arnold exploring her portraiture and her place in the history of photojournalism, edited by Brigitte Lardinois. Working closely with Eve Arnold as Cultural Director of Magnum Photos in London, Lardinois was aware of Arnold's wish to bring together her portraits together in a book. Though Arnold formerly edited her books herself, her advanced age did not allow her to fulfil this wish. Lardinois suggested the book to Thames and Hudson. Arnold gave the names of people who had been important in her career and Lardinois based her text on their recollections: Elliott Erwitt, Beeban Kidron, Mary McCartney, Sheena McDonald, David Puttnam, Michael Rand, Jon Snow and John Tusa.

Introductions were written by Angelica Huston and Isabella Rosselini.

Eve Arnold (b. 1912 in Philadelphia) was one of the great photographers of the modern era. This collection features her exceptional photographs of people, both famous and unknown, captured in formal and informal settings. In addition to Arnold's superb individual portraits of Monroe, Dietrich, Gable, Crawford, and more, there are a number of Photo Stories: visual essays made on assignment, including Malcolm X and the Black Muslims; her seminal work In China; and more. The work is organized into three key periods: 1948-60, her early career, and becoming the first woman member of Magnum; 1961-70, when she moved to the UK and began working with color film; 1971-97, with assignments in the Middle East, Afghanistan, and beyond.

With Arnold's permission Lardinois added the complete list of her photographic assignments, material never before published by Magnum. This clearly illustrates a photojournalist's way of working over a long period of time and of great interest to photo historians and students alike.

The book was published by Thames and Hudson in UK as well as the US and in Germany by Rolf Heyne and was sold world-wide.