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Eve Arnold was born in 1913 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania of immigrant Russian parents.

She began photographing while working at a photo-finishing plant in New York City in 1946, then studied photography (for 6 weeks) with Alexei Brodovitch at New York City's New School for Social Research in 1948.

Mrs. Arnold first became associated with Magnum Photos in 1951, becoming a full member in 1955.

She was based in America during the 1950s and came to England in 1962 to put her son to school at Bedales. Except for a six year hiatus, (when she worked in America and China to prepare a book on each of those countries), Mrs. Arnold has been based in Britain.

Following her photography of China, she had her first major solo exhibition of her China work at the Brooklyn Museum in 1980. That same year, she received the National Book Award for her book In China.

She was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Society of Magazine Photographers in 1980.

In 1995 she was made a fellow of the Royal Photographic Society and was elected "Master Photographer" - the world's most prestigious photographic honor - awarded by New York's International Center of Photography.

In 1996 she was the recipient of the Kraszna-Krausz Book Award for her book In Retrospect.

In 1997 Mrs. Arnold was awarded an Honorary Degree of Doctor of Science from the University of St. Andrews, Scotland, an Honorary Degree of Doctor of Letters from Staffordshire University, as well as the degree Doctor of Humanities from Richmond, the American International University in London.

The same year she was appointed a member of the Advisory Committee of the National Museum of Photography, Film & Television in Bradford.

Mrs. Arnold has published eleven books and has had innumerable exhibitions, both in Britain and abroad, principally:
In Britain at The National Portrait Gallery in London
In Retrospect at the Barbican, London
The National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh
The Gallery of Photography, Dublin
The Ikon Gallery, Birmingham
The National Museum of Film, Photography and Television, Bradford
Three-venue tour of Australia, April 1998 - March 1999

There have also been a number of exhibitions in the USA - at the Castelli Galleries and the International Center of Photography, both in New York, and the Menil Museum in Houston.