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This new 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.
Author Notes
Anjelica Huston (born July 8, 1951) is an American actress and director. Huston became the third generation of her family to win an Academy Award when she won Best Supporting Actress for her performance in 1985's Prizzi's Honor, joining her father, director John Huston, and grandfather, actor Walter Huston. She also received Academy Award nominations for Enemies, a Love Story (1989) and The Grifters (1990).
Although she was born in Santa Monica, California, Huston spent much of her childhood in Ireland. In 2014, her memoir entitled Watch Me made it to the New York Times bestseller list.
(Bowker Author Biography)
Reviews (2)
Booklist Review
One of the first women in the photojournalists' collective Magnum, Arnold was in her late thirties when she launched her career. She retired a half-century later and receives this tribute in her ninety-eighth year. She became famous for exceptionally personalizing, on-the-wing portraits of everyone from Queen Elizabeth II to an old woman glimpsed in a darkened doorway. Arnold wasn't merely lucky, as erstwhile subjects Anjelica Huston and Isabella Rossellini attest, as do eight of her colleagues quoted in editor Lardinois' commentary. With subjects who expected her basically, the famous ones she took time for them to become inured to her presence, all the while studying them so that when she photographed she would have a feeling for their most characteristic gestures and expressions. She became so adept at portraying Marilyn Monroe that her pictures of her are some of the most individuating, hence most iconic, of that quintessential movie star. For the humbler people she lensed in groundbreaking assignments to Afghanistan in 1969, South Africa in 1973, and China in 1979, she depended on a developed photographer's intuition that was virtually nonpareil.--Olson, Ray Copyright 2009 Booklist
Library Journal Review
Photojournalist Eve Arnold was the first female member of the Magnum cooperative, founded by Henri Cartier-Bresson and Robert Capa after World War II. Although she is best known for the many empathic photos she took of Marilyn Monroe (her collection Marilyn Monroe was published in 2005), Lardinois (ed., Magnum Magnum) does a surpassingly good job of depicting Arnold's sweeping career and vision. Born in Philadelphia, Arnold spent decades in London beginning in 1961, and much of her expansive accomplishment was expressed through her association with the Sunday Times. Perceptive and self-effacing, this diminutive woman inconspicuously inserted herself into a wide range of contexts; this collection, created with Arnold's involvement and featuring texts by Anjelica Huston, Isabella Rossellini, and others, depicts Malcolm X and his movement, pre-Tiananmen China, 1960s Afghanistan, and film stars of multiple eras (e.g., Clark Gable, Marlene Dietrich, Elizabeth Taylor, and Paul Newman). Unfairly obscure in reputation, Arnold deserves the thoroughgoing treatment she receives in this pictorial tribute. Verdict An excellent source of inspiration and entertainment for anyone who fancies classic Hollywood celebrities or documentary photography.-Douglas F. Smith, Berkeley P.L., CA (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
