1. Unit 57: Photography and
Photographic Practice
Research of other
photographers work by
Ashleigh Darlington

2. Eve Arnold is an American born photographer, she was
born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on April 21, 1912.
She first found that she was interested in photography
when she began working in a New York City photo
finishing plant in 1946. During 1948 she learnt
photographic skills from Harper’s Bazaar art director, Alexy
Brodovitch, at the New School for Social Research in
Manhattan.
Eve Arnold was known for photographing many iconic
figures and she also documented the lives of the poor and
dispossessed.
During the early 1980s Arnold had her first solo exhibition.
This featured her work done in China at the Brooklyn
Museum in New York City. In the same year she received
the Lifetime Achievement Award from the American
Society of Magazine Photographers. In 1993 she was
made Honorary Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society
and she was also elected Master Photographer by New
York’s International Centre of Photography. In 1997, she
was appointed a member of the Advisory Committee of the
National Media Museum in Bradford and in 2003 Eve
Arnold received an OBE.
She died in January 2013, aged 99.

3. I like Eve Arnolds work because I think she managed to capture the natural look of
people rather than the stiff posed side people were used to seeing.
I prefer black and white photography be cause I think that it lets you look a person
closer as you aren't distracted by background ‘noise’ and you can see properly the
expressions and what else is happening in the images.

4. Eve Arnold most well known photographs are probably
those of Marilyn Monroe, she photographed her many
times, there first meeting was on the set of Misfits from
the 1960s.
Arnold always photograph Monroe looking quite
relaxed, rather than stiffly posed. On this photograph
you can see a slight blur on the hand holding her
pigtail, this suggest that Monroe wont of been asked to
be stiff while she was being photographed.
Eve Arnold has stated that she wanted her
photography to look more personal and that a close
relationship was sometimes needed for this to be
achieved, on the set of The Misfits Arnold was the only
photographers let into Marilyn's ‘inner circle’, this lead
to them doing other photo-shoots after the end of
filming.
With a lot of Arnolds photographs the subjects are in a
position with either background or centred with not
much background and the focus on them, I think that
as Eve photographed a lot of iconic people that for her
to be to be valued as a photographer she would have
to do this with her images, I think she achieved great
results with all of her images and I also think that the
closeness of her relationship with Monroe helped a
great deal in achieving natural personal looking photos.

5. This photograph was taken in Long Island, New
York 1955.
Eve states that this photo was taken while she
was setting up her equipment ready for a shoot,
Monroe took out a book to read while she was
waiting.
Marilyn is slightly centred on the image, although
the image looks more to the left as Arnold has
taken it from a slight angle. I think this image
works well as the lines from her top and the lines
from the bars of the frame all fit in together, also
the way that her legs are positions fits in with the
lines of the bars and the top she is wearing.
The colouring of this image works well also as the
bars are slightly faded and the ground and the
tress don’t jump out at you, this brings more
attention to the subject of the photograph as her
clothing and skin is brighter and eye catching
than the rest of the image. This image could be
an example of rule of thirds as Monroe is centred
and has the bars on one side and the ground on
threes on another.

6. This photograph was taken in Long Island, New
York 1955.
Eve states that this photo was taken while she
was setting up her equipment ready for a shoot,
Monroe took out a book to read while she was
waiting.
Marilyn is slightly centred on the image, although
the image looks more to the left as Arnold has
taken it from a slight angle. I think this image
works well as the lines from her top and the lines
from the bars of the frame all fit in together, also
the way that her legs are positions fits in with the
lines of the bars and the top she is wearing.
The colouring of this image works well also as the
bars are slightly faded and the ground and the
tress don’t jump out at you, this brings more
attention to the subject of the photograph as her
clothing and skin is brighter and eye catching
than the rest of the image. This image could be
an example of rule of thirds as Monroe is centred
and has the bars on one side and the ground on
threes on another.