Eve Arnold is an American photojournalist, born in Philadelphia. Her interest in photography began in 1946 while working in a New York City photo-finishing plant. Over six weeks in 1948, she learned photographic skills from
Harper's Bazaar art director Alexey Brodovitch at the New School for Social Research in Manhattan. Arnold has photographed iconic figures, but was equally has comfortable capturing the lives of the poor and dispossessed.
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“I don't see anybody as either ordinary or extraordinary," Arnold said in a 1990 BBC interview, "I see them simply as people in front of my lens.”
She captured her subjects in such a simple manner and it made the photos so extraordinary.
