by Nancy Brannon
As editor of a horse-themed news magazine, I am always on the lookout for stunning photos of horses to use in the publication. On January 5, 2012, National Public Radio (NPR) posted on their website on “The Picture Show” blog photos taken by photojournalist Eve Arnold, who had died the previous day, just shy of her 100th birthday. This particular photo really caught my eye. It is from her China, 1979 collection. The caption reads: “Inner Mongolia. Horse training for the militia. 1979. (Photo courtesy of Magnum Photos)
About Eve Arnold: Photojournalist Eve Arnold traveled the world taking photos of subjects that ranged from the rich and famous to the poor and dispossessed. She was renowned for her rapport with those she photographed. “If you're careful with people and if you respect their privacy, they will offer part of themselves that you can use,” The Associated Press quoted her from a 2002 BBC interview. “Themes recur again and again in my work," Arnold once said. "I have been poor and I wanted to document poverty; I had lost a child and I was obsessed with birth; I was interested in politics and I wanted to know how it affected our lives; I am a woman and I wanted to know about women.” (source: The Associated Press)
Arnold was born in Philadelphia in April 1912 to Russian immigrant parents. She took a photography course at the New School for Social Research in New York, and began her career in the 1940s, working for publications including Picture Post, Time and Life magazines. (source: The Associated Press)
Arnold began working for Magnum Photography Agency on a freelance basis in 1951 and became a full member of the group in 1957. The agency's founders included Henri Cartier-Bresson and Robert Capa, considered the greatest reportage photographers of the time. Most members of the cooperative were men. Arnold's only female colleague at the agency was Inge Morath, who joined Magnum as a full member in 1955. (source: LA Times obituaries)
In 1979 Arnold took two extensive trips to China, “totaling five months in which she was able to travel freely, following her own itinerary some 40,000 miles back and forth across the mainland, with almost a hundred percent access to everything she chose to photograph, accompanied only by her interpreter.” Her photographs culminated in her book, In China.
The book is “an incomparably complete and beautiful photographic portrait of China - the people, the work, the lives from Peking to Mongolia, and the Burmese border to Tibet.” It contains one hundred and seventy, full color photographs, including several of horses and their trainers and acrobats. (source: Magnum Photography)
For more of Arnold’s photographs from China, particularly of horses, visit Eve Arnold’s page on Magnum Photos website: http://www.magnumphotos.com/C.aspx?VP=XSpecific_MAG.PhotographerDetail_VPage&l1=0&pid=2K7O3R14AZX1&nm=Eve%20Arnold
On her page, click “Book In China.” Then click “view all images.”
http://www.magnumphotos.com/c.aspx?VP=XSpecific_MAG.BookDetail_VPage&pid=2K7O3R1VWUYM
I recommend the following photos:
LON17108: CHINA. Inner Mongolia. Equestrians acrobats rehearsing. 1979.
LON68042: CHINA. Polo Match. 1979.
LON68044: CHINA. Inner Mongolia. 1979.
LON79138: CHINA. 1979.
LON12342: CHINA. Inner Mongollia. Roundup. 1979.
LON12992: China. Inner Mongolia. Cowboy and his children. 1979.
As editor of a horse-themed news magazine, I am always on the lookout for stunning photos of horses to use in the publication. On January 5, 2012, National Public Radio (NPR) posted on their website on “The Picture Show” blog photos taken by photojournalist Eve Arnold, who had died the previous day, just shy of her 100th birthday. This particular photo really caught my eye. It is from her China, 1979 collection. The caption reads: “Inner Mongolia. Horse training for the militia. 1979. (Photo courtesy of Magnum Photos)
About Eve Arnold: Photojournalist Eve Arnold traveled the world taking photos of subjects that ranged from the rich and famous to the poor and dispossessed. She was renowned for her rapport with those she photographed. “If you're careful with people and if you respect their privacy, they will offer part of themselves that you can use,” The Associated Press quoted her from a 2002 BBC interview. “Themes recur again and again in my work," Arnold once said. "I have been poor and I wanted to document poverty; I had lost a child and I was obsessed with birth; I was interested in politics and I wanted to know how it affected our lives; I am a woman and I wanted to know about women.” (source: The Associated Press)
Arnold was born in Philadelphia in April 1912 to Russian immigrant parents. She took a photography course at the New School for Social Research in New York, and began her career in the 1940s, working for publications including Picture Post, Time and Life magazines. (source: The Associated Press)
Arnold began working for Magnum Photography Agency on a freelance basis in 1951 and became a full member of the group in 1957. The agency's founders included Henri Cartier-Bresson and Robert Capa, considered the greatest reportage photographers of the time. Most members of the cooperative were men. Arnold's only female colleague at the agency was Inge Morath, who joined Magnum as a full member in 1955. (source: LA Times obituaries)
In 1979 Arnold took two extensive trips to China, “totaling five months in which she was able to travel freely, following her own itinerary some 40,000 miles back and forth across the mainland, with almost a hundred percent access to everything she chose to photograph, accompanied only by her interpreter.” Her photographs culminated in her book, In China.
The book is “an incomparably complete and beautiful photographic portrait of China - the people, the work, the lives from Peking to Mongolia, and the Burmese border to Tibet.” It contains one hundred and seventy, full color photographs, including several of horses and their trainers and acrobats. (source: Magnum Photography)
For more of Arnold’s photographs from China, particularly of horses, visit Eve Arnold’s page on Magnum Photos website: http://www.magnumphotos.com/C.aspx?VP=XSpecific_MAG.PhotographerDetail_VPage&l1=0&pid=2K7O3R14AZX1&nm=Eve%20Arnold
On her page, click “Book In China.” Then click “view all images.”
http://www.magnumphotos.com/c.aspx?VP=XSpecific_MAG.BookDetail_VPage&pid=2K7O3R1VWUYM
I recommend the following photos:
LON17108: CHINA. Inner Mongolia. Equestrians acrobats rehearsing. 1979.
LON68042: CHINA. Polo Match. 1979.
LON68044: CHINA. Inner Mongolia. 1979.
LON79138: CHINA. 1979.
LON12342: CHINA. Inner Mongollia. Roundup. 1979.
LON12992: China. Inner Mongolia. Cowboy and his children. 1979.
