The wonderful photographer, Eve Arnold lived her life at full tilt until a ripe old age. She died 4 January, aged 99.
A truly inspirational woman and one of nine, from a poor Brooklyn family of Russian immigrants. Fiercely talented, she was the first woman to join Magnum in 1951, among photographic luminaries Robert Capa and Henri Cartier Bresson.
I love that she was a force of nature, an outspoken critic of McCarthyism, apartheid, poverty and social injustice, who lived with hippy communes and the Black Power movement. My favourite shot, this one of Malcolm X as its captures the soul of a beautiful man. Listen to her on Desert Island discs.www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/.../Desert_Island_Discs_Eve_Arnold -
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