About Eve Arnold: Eve Arnold was an American photojournalist. She joined Magnum Photos agency in 1951, and became a full member in 1957.
You should never reveal your true age.
What do you hang on the walls of your mind?
I realize that I had the best of serious picture journalism.
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 pe...
What you need to be a good photographer is an overwhelming curiosity and a good digestion. Sometimes you feel blessed with curiosity, sometimes you feel cursed with it.
If the chemistry is right between star and photographer and the geometry of the pictures pleases the star, often the two people end up with a long-term professional friendship during which they continue to work together and to produce highly personal...
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.
I had in mind a long career.
I came to photography by accident.
What drove me and kept me going over the decades? If I had to use a single word, it would be 'curiosity.'
Lesson number one: Pay attention to the intrusion of the camera.
I don't see anybody as either ordinary or extraordinary. I see them simply as people in front of my lens.
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.
It is the photographer, not the camera, that is the instrument.
If a photographer cares about the people before the lens and is compassionate, much is given.
What I have tried to do is involve the people I was photographing... if they were willing to give, I was willing to photograph.
I can't hold a camera anymore.
I want the subject to be in control. Because they will give me something I couldn't possibly know about them.
If you are careful with people, they will offer you part of themselves. That is the big secret.
I find going back through things sometimes exhilarating because I find things I didn't know I had, and sometimes it's very off putting because there are things I never quite finished, and there's nothing at all to do about it now.
