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Eve Arnold's Profile

Brief about Eve Arnold: By info that we know Eve Arnold was born at 1912-04-21. And also Eve Arnold is American Photographer.

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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.

Tags: Blessed, Good, Sometimes

I came to photography by accident.

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I can't hold a camera anymore.

Tags: Anymore, Camera, Hold

I don't see anybody as either ordinary or extraordinary. I see them simply as people in front of my lens.

Tags: Anybody, Either, Simply

I had in mind a long career.

Tags: Career, Mind

I realize that I had the best of serious picture journalism.

Tags: Best, Picture, Serious

I want the subject to be in control. Because they will give me something I couldn't possibly know about them.

Tags: Control, Give, Subject

If a photographer cares about the people before the lens and is compassionate, much is given.

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If you are careful with people, they will offer you part of themselves. That is the big secret.

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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.

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It is the photographer, not the camera, that is the instrument.

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Lesson number one: Pay attention to the intrusion of the camera.

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Themes recur again and again in my work.

Tags: Again, Themes, Work

What do you hang on the walls of your mind?

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What drove me and kept me going over the decades? If I had to use a single word, it would be 'curiosity.'

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What I have tried to do is involve the people I was photographing... if they were willing to give, I was willing to photograph.

Tags: Give, Tried, Willing

You should never reveal your true age.

Tags: Age, Reveal, True

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.

Tags: Off, Quite, Sometimes

I have been poor and I wanted to document poverty; I had lost a child and I was obsessed with birth; I was interested in politics and I wanted to know how it affected our lives; I am a woman and I wanted to know about women.

Tags: Politics, Woman, Women

I look for a sense of reality with everything I did. I didn't work in a studio, I didn't light anything. I found a way of working which pleased me because I didn't have to frighten people with heavy equipment. It was that little black box and me and £5 worth of film in my pocket or maybe it was only £2 in those days.

Tags: Black, Reality, Work
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