Eve Arnold In Retrospect

E-356: Knopf. Very Good. 1995. Hardcover. Hardcover. 4to. Published by Alfred A. Knopf, New York. 1995. 289 pgs. First Edition/First Printing. DJ has light shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities. Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. An early member of the prestigious postwar cooperative Magnum Photos, Arnold (The Unretouched Woman) , for much of a half-century career in photojournalism, arranged her own assignments. For Life, London's Sunday Colour and other top magazines worldwide, she covered screen stars Joan Crawford and Marilyn Monroe; a colony of centenarians in Georgia, U. S. S. R. ; Vatican City, body and soul; and a Dubai wedding featuring a camel race? To name but a few. She did photo-profiles of Indira Gandhi, Mamie Eisenhower, Mikhail Baryshnikov and British PM John Major; publicity stills for The Misfits and several other John Huston films; a number of advertising spreads; and eight text-and-picture books. In an engaging mixture of pride, self-deprecation, personal sentiment and philosophical reflection ("photography flourishes on the absolute") , she here gives a top practitioner's clear and authoritative (if often overly detailed) account of 20th-century photojournalism, now deteriorating, she fears, into "glitz and packaging." EB; 9.5 X 1 X 11.5 inches; 289 pages .