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Eve Arnold (1912-2012)
Eve Arnold was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to Russian immigrant parents. She began photographing in 1946 and then studied photography in 1948 with Alexei Brodovitch at the New School for Social Research in New York. Arnold first became associated with Magnum Photos in 1951 and became a full member in 1957. She was based in the US during the 1950s but went to England in 1962 to put her son through school. Her first major solo exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum in 1980, where she showed the resulting images from her trip to china. In the same year, she received the National Book Award for "In China" and the Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Society of Magazine Photographers. In later years, she received many other honours and awards. She has had twelve books published. Eve Arnoldpassed away in January of 2012. (Magnum)