{"id":9804,"date":"2023-10-23T11:06:29","date_gmt":"2023-10-23T11:06:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/damesnet.com\/?p=9804"},"modified":"2023-10-23T11:06:30","modified_gmt":"2023-10-23T11:06:30","slug":"eve-arnold-to-know-about-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/damesnet.com\/?p=9804","title":{"rendered":"Eve Arnold: To Know About Women"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Black debutante ball by Eve Arnold\/damesnet<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n

Newlands House Gallery in Petworth, West Sussex is a gem. Its home is an 18th<\/sup> century townhouse in the middle of Petworth, and it hosts exhibitions of internationally known modern and contemporary artists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Their current exhibition features the work of Eve Arnold; she was born in Philadelphia in 1912, the child of Jewish immigrants from Ukraine who had fled the pogroms. She grew up in poverty but went on to become one of the most important photographers of the 20th<\/sup> century, photographing a cross section of society in many parts of the world.\u00a0 It is the first retrospective of her work in ten years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The exhibition takes you on a chronological tour of Arnold\u2019s work. The spacious rooms with their high ceilings provide the perfect backdrop for these black and white masterpieces of composition, light and shade.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Bar girl in a brothel in the red light district, Havana, Cuba by Eve Arnold\/damesnet<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n

Arnold benefited from the great technical advancements in photography that were happening as she developed her craft. It was a time that saw the birth of photojournalism, and Arnold became one of the few photojournalists offering a female perspective, choosing to photograph mostly female subjects. \u00a0She was given her first camera in 1950, at the age of 38, and her only formal education in the subject was a short course in New York run by Alexey Brodovitch, the art director of Harper\u2019s Bazaar.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Arnold joined Magnum Photos Agency in 1951; the photos on display from that period cover a remarkable range of subjects. Arnold went to Harlem to photograph fashion shows and the magazine Picture Post<\/em> featured them \u2013 her first publication. Over the next few years her subjects included migrant workers near the family home on Long Island, and women working at an aircraft factory.  In 1952 she photographed a recording studio session with Marlene Dietrich at Columbia Records. <\/p>\n\n\n

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Newborn grasping mother’s finger by Eve Arnold\/damesnet<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n

Childbirth is a theme that Arnold chose to photograph throughout her career, beginning with the birth of her niece Jane Walsh in 1952.  We do not see Jane\u2019s face or her baby \u2013 just two legs mounted on birthing stirrups, with a male doctor and nurse standing facing them, apparently dispassionately. Other photos in this series reflect the maternal; a newborn finger clutching its mother\u2019s finger, and a head shot of a mother gazing in joy at her swaddled baby.  The only visible evidence of the baby is a tiny heel projecting from a bundle. \u2018Skin on skin\u2019 was clearly not in vogue during 1950s childbirth.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Marilyn Monroe reading Ulysses on set by Eve Arnold\/damesnet<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n

Arnold met Marilyn Monroe in 1954, and photographed her on film sets for several years. The exhibition includes a short film with Arnold speaking of their relationship. The famous photo of Marilyn reading James Joyce\u2019s Ulysses<\/em> is one of the few colour photographs in the exhibition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jackie Kennedy, a young Queen Elizabeth, \u2018Lady Bird\u2019 Johnson and Grace Kelly gaze dispassionately from the walls of one of the rooms. Another features photos of African American students training in passive resistance tactics for school sit-ins and a party in Virginia in which white students are introduced to African American students.\u00a0 An exhausted woman in a Harlem brothel leans up against the bar; her eyes are expressionless.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 1960s saw Arnold photographing politicians and film stars and ended with her working on a project entitled \u2018Behind the Veil\u2019. She spent four months travelling through Afghanistan and went on to photograph veiled women in Egypt and in harems throughout the United Arab Emirates.  And yes, I had no idea harems still existed in the 1970s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Arnold moved to the UK in the 1970s and lived there till she died aged 99.  She worked until she said \u2018That’s over. I can’t hold a camera any more\u2019. The exhibition runs until January 7 2024; there are no plans for it to move to another gallery \u2013 if you are anywhere in Sussex, I urge you to visit it. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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