Luminous Landscape Forum
The Art of Photography => The Coffee Corner => Topic started by: Chairman Bill on January 05, 2012, 02:24:11 pm
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Magnum photographer, Eve Arnold, has died, 3 months short of her centenary. Brief review in the Guardian, here (http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/gallery/2012/jan/05/eve-arnold-memorable-photographs) & an obituary here (http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2012/jan/05/eve-arnold)
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How very sad. She was a great photographer, and if you had the opportunity of watching the documentary about her a few years ago, she'd have grown into your heart. Inevitable, but still so sad.
Rob C
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Very sad indeed, looks like she left behind a great body of work.
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Very sad news indeed. I have long admired her work.
Having deliberated for 2 years over affording one of her photogravure prints, 'Bar girl in Brothel, Havana, Cuba 1954', I went ahead with the purchase in the Autumn. It is simply fantastic and all who have seen it, none of whom were familiar with Eve Arnold, are taken with her artistry.
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... 'Bar girl in Brothel, Havana, Cuba 1954', ...
One of my favourites
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Sad news indeed.
Pat Booth interviewed her some time ago - http://www.photoicon.com/modern_masters/42/
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Fine article on Eve Arnold in this morning's (Thursday 1/12) Wall Street Journal.
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Amazing photographer, her pictures are really magnificent. It's a bless for all the pictures she left to be remembered.
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Brilliant photography indeed: http://everyday-i-show.livejournal.com/115212.html
What struck me once more looking at them is the total irrelevance of technical image quality. Most of these images contain no more than 5MP worth of detail, half of them are soft focused,...
Cheers,
Bernard
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Hi Bernard
I think that what you point out has far more than technical significance: I believe it's one of the factors that contributed to the star system existing and being sustained by legions of fans: believability.
You look at those candids of people like Gable and Marilyn, and what do you see? You see people. You do the same with contemporary movie/music people, and what do you see? You see plastic. And that's the difference: in the past you could empathise but now you simply can't: that closeness has been removed from the equation and you may as well be looking at a waxwork. There just isn't the humanity, the only thing that provides a bond beween the star and the public.
Now, it's only kids who follow anything/anybody, and that's good for five minutes. Who can be surprised? Was a time that adults were interested in stars just because they could see them as real, living similar, but richer, lives to themselves. You could see lines of maturity on faces, the look of pain or love in eyes. Now - it's all PS perfection even though it's actually nothing more than distortion. It must have been nice to work for Magnum or Globe in those days!
Rob C