Eve Arnold was born in 1912 to Russian immigrant parents in Philadelphia. With experience in photography processing and little formal training, she joined Magnum Photos in New York in the 1950s as one of the first female photographers at the agency. From there she began a long and diverse career, during which she photographed life in the US, Britain, USSR, Afghanistan and China, and people from children and manual labourers to heads of state and film stars such as Marilyn Monroe.
She produced picture assignments for magazines internationally, published books and exhibited worldwide. A blend of curiosity, discipline and morale courage would characterise her career which never settled for clichés or stereotypes. Guided in her own words, this retrospective of Arnold's work makes her 100th birthday and features some of her iconic photographs alongside main never-before published images.
