Eve Arnold

Examining her portfolio, Robert Capa pinpointed the twin strands of her work as being “Marlene Dietrich’s legs and the bitter lives of migratory potato pickers”. The lives of the celebrated and the mundane were to remain her favoured subjects.During the 1950s and 1960s, Eve Arnold worked for magazines such as Life, Esquire, Harper’s Bazaar and Paris-Match, photographing, among others, James Cagney, Paul Newman and Rocky Marciano. She was Dietrich’s long-time choice as photographer, and she also took a memorable set of the ageing Joan Crawford enduring her punishing beauty regime. Her sympathetic lens could make even Andy Warhol (captured lifting weights while seated on a lavatory) seem merely sublimely idiosyncratic.