January 6, 2012
NEW YOR (AFP) - Eve Arnold, a US photographer who took famous pictures of Marilyn Monroe among other renowned figures and was a pioneering member of the Magnum photo agency, has died, Magnum said Thursday. She was 99.
"It is with great sadness that Magnum Photos today announces the death of American photographer, Eve Arnold, who passed away peacefully on 4th January 2012," the member-run cooperative said in a statement.
She died in London, where she had lived since the 1960s.
Arnold was the first female photographer to become a full member of the storied Magnum agency in 1957. Her pictures of figures such as Monroe, Malcolm X and Marlene Dietrich were famous.
The Philadelphia-born journalist also became known for her work depicting life in the Arab world, Afghanistan, China, and Russia.
"If a photographer cares about the people before the lens and is compassionate, much is given," she had said. "It is the photographer, not the camera, that is the instrument."
