Masters of Photography – MAGNUM PHOTOS Collection

Eve Arnold was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1912, the daughter of Russian immigrants. She began taking photographs in 1946 while working in a photo-finishing factory in New York City. In 1948, she studied photography with Alexei Brodovitch at the New School for Social Research in New York.

Arnold was first associated with Magnum Photos in 1951 and became a full member in 1957. She lived in the United States during the 1950s but moved to England in 1962 to send her son to school. From then on, she lived in Great Britain, except for a six-year period when she worked in the United States and China.

In 1980, she had her first major solo exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum, where she showed the photographs she had taken during her time in China. That same year, she received the National Book Award for *In China* and the Lifetime Achievement Award.
American Society of Magazine Photographers Award.

In later years, she received many more honors and awards. In 1995, she was appointed a Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society and named a Master Photographer by the International Center of Photography in New York, the world's most prestigious photographic award. In 1996, she received the
Kraszna-Krausz Book Award for In Retrospect; the following year she received an honorary doctorate from the University of St Andrews, the Staffordshire University
and the American International University in London. She was also appointed to the advisory board of the National Museum of Photography, Film & Television in Bradford, Great Britain. She published 12 books.

Eve Arnold died on January 4, 2012 in London.

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On December 3, 1938, Picture Post featured "the world's greatest war photographer: Robert Capa" with a two-page spread of 26 photographs taken during the Spanish Civil War. But the "greatest war photographer" hated war. Born André Friedmann in Budapest in 1913 to Jewish parents, he studied political science at the German Academy for Politics in Berlin. Capa settled in Paris in 1933 after being driven to exile by the threat of war.
had been expelled from Germany by a National Socialist regime.

He was represented by Alliance Photo and met the journalist and photographer Gerda Taro. Together they invented Robert Capa, the "famous" American photographer, and began selling his prints under that name. He met Pablo Picasso and Ernest Hemingway and formed friendships with his fellow photographers David "Chim" Seymour and Henri Cartier-Bresson.

From 1936 onwards, Capa's reporting on the Spanish Civil War appeared regularly. His image of a loyalist soldier who had just been mortally wounded earned Capa his international reputation and became a powerful symbol of the war.

After Taro, who had become his professional partner and companion, was murdered in Spain, Capa traveled to China in 1938 and emigrated to New York a year later. As a correspondent in Europe, he photographed World War II and reported on the landing of American troops on Omaha Beach.
D-Day, the liberation of Paris, and the Battle of the Bulge.

In 1947, Capa was the driving force behind the founding of Magnum Photos. On May 25, 1954, he was photographing life in Thai Binh, Indochina, when he arrived at a
He stepped on a landmine and was killed. The French army posthumously awarded him the
Croix de Guerre with Palm. The Robert Capa Gold Medal Award was established in 1955.
Created to recognize exceptional professional achievements.

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Richard Kalvar, born in 1944, is an American. After studying English and American literature at Cornell University from 1961 to 1965, he worked
He worked in New York as an assistant to fashion photographer Jérôme Ducrot. It was an extensive trip to Europe with a camera in 1966 that led him to become a photographer. After another two years in New York, he settled in Paris and initially worked for the Vu photo agency before co-founding the Viva agency in 1972. In 1975, he became an associate member of Magnum Photos and two years later a full member, after which he served as vice president and
President acted.

In 1980, Kalvar had a solo exhibition at the Galerie Agathe Gaillard in Paris and has since participated in numerous group exhibitions. In 1993, he published Portrait de Conflans Sainte-Honorine. A major retrospective of his work was presented at the Maison Européenne de la Photographie in 2007, accompanied by the book Earthlings. His book Photofile was published by Thames & Hudson in 2019, and Selected Writings was published by Damiani in 2023. He has undertaken extensive personal, editorial, and commercial commissions worldwide, particularly in France, Italy, England, Japan, and the United States, and continues to work on a long-term project about the city of Rome.

Kalvar's photographs are characterized by a strong homogeneity of aesthetics and subject matter. His images often play with a discrepancy between the banality of a real situation and a feeling of strangeness that arises from a specific choice of timing and framing. This creates a tension between two levels of interpretation, which is softened by a touch of humor.
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Dennis Stock was born in New York City in 1928. At the age of 17, he left home to join the United States Navy. In 1947, he apprenticed with Life magazine photographer Gjon Mili and won first prize in Life's Young Photographers Contest. He joined Magnum Photos in 1951 and became a full member in 1954.

Stock managed to evoke the spirit of America through his memorable and iconic portraits of Hollywood stars, especially James Dean. From 1957 to 1960, Stock created vivid portraits of jazz musicians for his book Jazz Street, including Louis Armstrong, Billie Holiday, Sidney Bechet, and Gene.
Krupa and Duke Ellington. In 1968, Stock took a leave of absence from Magnum to found the film production company Visual Objectives, and he directed several documentaries. In the late 1960s, he documented the attempts of California hippies to reshape society according to the ideals of love and care. In the 1970s and 1980s, he worked on color books in which he emphasized the beauty of nature through details and landscapes. In the 1990s, he returned to his urban origins, exploring the modern architecture of major cities. After the turn of the century, his work focused primarily on the abstraction of flowers.

Stock produced a book or exhibition almost every year from the 1950s onward. He gave numerous workshops and exhibited his work in France, Germany, Italy, the United States, and Japan. He worked as an author,
Director and producer for television and film, and his photographs were
acquired by most major museum collections. In 1969 and 1970, he was president of Magnum's Film and New Media division.

Dennis Stock was married to author Susan Richards. He died on January 11, 2010, at her home in Sarasota, Florida.
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