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RIP, Eve Arnold. A true pioneer…

“Arnold is best remembered now for her portraits of politicians, musicians, and movie stars,  most notably Marilyn Monroe, with whom she had a 10-year collaboration. She also photographed Joan Crawford, Marlene Dietrich, and others. But her long-term documentary work was her driving passion, according to Magnum. 

“Themes recur again and again in my work. 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,” she wrote in her 1976 book, The Unretouched Woman.” 

source: pdn

stylopedia:

Eve Arnold - Marlene Dietrich at Columbia Records Recording Studios, New York, 1952