Eve Arnold began photographing in 1946 and studied with Alexei Brodovitch at the New School in New York in 1948. She was associated with Magnum Photos from 1951 and became a full member in 1957.
Based in England from 1962, she worked across the United States, the Soviet Union and China. In 1980 her book In China received the National Book Award, the year of her first major solo exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum.
