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Eve Arnold
"Throughout her career, Eve Arnold alternated between serious documentary photography and working behind the scenes on numerous films. At a time when Hollywood studios controlled every aspect of their actors' image, Arnold's candid photographs showed actors at their most intimate and their most compelling: Marilyn Monroe sharing a private moment with Arthur Miller, Marlene Dietrich uncharacteristically girlish in the recording studio, Michael Caine and Candice Bergen doing an impromptu tango number and an exhausted Richard Attenborough stealing a nap in between shooting." Eve Arnold: Film Journal is a collection of these famous film stills along with the notes and impressions made by Arnold during the shoot. As her camera revealed the unseen sides of Hollywood legends, Arnold also became privy to their private lives. In her Film Journal, she writes memorably about the tensions and dramas on the film sets, of Marilyn Monroe combing her pubic hair during an interview, Simone Signoret discussing her husband Yves Montand's infidelities, Joan Crawford sneaking in vodka in a Pepsi cooler, and Marlene Dietrich recounting her night with John F. Kennedy.
255 pages, Hardcover
First published August 1, 2002
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June 7, 2023
Great fun to read about what it’s like to work with these stars. Not all of her work is photographically outstanding but still serves an important purpose back in the day. As well I can’t imagine being a woman in this time was easy.
November 5, 2010
Wonderful book to have for dipping into; evocative, poignant and funny stories about Arnold's subjects. Joan Crawford, as usual, provides much drama and the heartbreaking observation that "something sad happens to the skin after fifty." No matter how Crawford tried, she couldn't keep the crazy out, and she couldn't stop losting her beauty. Excellent stories from the set of "The Misfits", too.
July 28, 2011
Great photography. Really interesting notes.
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