Film Journal

by Arnold, Eve

• ISBN13: 9781582342481
• ISBN10: 1582342482
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-08-17
• Publisher: Bloomsbury USA

Summary

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. With eighty previously unpublished photographs and including many old favourites, Eve Arnold: Film Journal is a classic from one of the great photographers of our time. Book jacket.

Author Biography

Born in Philadelphia into a Russian immigrant family, Eve Arnold studied medicine before changing to photography studies in New York in 1947. In 1951 she became the first woman to work for the celebrated Magnum Photos agency. A friend and protegee of the French photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson, Arnold is known equally for her photo-essays on peoples and cultures and her sensitive portraits of both celebrities and unknown subjects. Her work has appeared in Life magazine and The Sunday Times, among many others.

Table of Contents

Introduction	7	(6)
Marlene Dietrich	13	(18)
The Best of Everything	31	(24)
The Misfits	55	(26)
The Palace	81	(4)
Becket	85	(8)
The Pumpkin Eater	93	(8)
Harlot	101	(6)
The Bible	107	(8)
Life at the Top	115	(16)
The Flight of the Phoenix	131	(10)
Modesty Blaise	141	(10)
The Deadly Affair	151	(8)
A Countess from Hong Kong	159	(6)
A Man for All Seasons	165	(4)
Dr Dolittle	169	(8)
The Magus	177	(6)
A Walk with Love and Death	183	(8)
Justine	191	(8)
Patton	199	(8)
The Man Who Would Be King	207	(10)
The Great Train Robbery	217	(4)
Alien	221	(8)
Clash of the Titans	229	(4)
Under the Volcano	233	(8)
White Nights	241	(12)
Biography	253	(1)
Index	254	(2)
Acknowledgements	256