Recording sessions were stimulating to photograph, because everything was in motion: the subject, the musicians, the technicians and the photographer. You needed fast reflexes to keep up with moving targets, and sensitivity and skill to get the pictures while keeping out of the performers’ eyeline so as not to break their concentration. Eve Arnold Read Quote
I find going back through things sometimes exhilarating because I find things I didn’t know I had, and sometimes it’s very off putting because there are things I never quite finished, and there’s nothing at all to do about it now. Eve Arnold Read Quote
I want the subject to be in control. Because they will give me something I couldn’t possibly know about them. Eve Arnold Read Quote
What I have tried to do is involve the people I was photographing… if they were willing to give, I was willing to photograph. Eve Arnold Read Quote
I look for a sense of reality with everything I did. I didn’t work in a studio, I didn’t light anything. I found a way of working which pleased me because I didn’t have to frighten people with heavy equipment. It was that little black box and me and £5 worth of film in my pocket or maybe it was only £2 in those days. Eve Arnold Read Quote
I love the idea I can go off with a single camera and a few rolls of film unencumbered… I was not interested in the illusion of reality, I wanted to get close to what was happening. Eve Arnold Read Quote
