Fine Print: US actress Marilyn Monroe. Bement, Illinois, USA, 1955 Music

Fine Print: US actress Marilyn Monroe. Bement, Illinois, USA, 1955 MusicEve Arnold was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1912 to Russian immigrant parents. She began photographing in 1946 while working at a photo finishing plant in New York City. She then studied photography in 1948 with Alexei Brodovitch at the New School for Social Research in New York. Arnold first became associated with Magnum Photos in 1951 and became a full member in 1957. She was based in the US during the 1950s, but moved to England in 1962

List pursued form and composition

Growing up in Upper Manhattan

Brought together in this book following extensive research and collaboration with her models

historical facts

the same contrasts and tensions

tears blended with laughter

following its 75th anniversary

in a forthcoming volume

as in much of his work

Herbert List described his images as “composed visions where [my] arrangements try to capture the magical essence inhabiting and animating the world of appearances”

these photographs evoke traditional fables or classic children’s books in which animals enact human behaviours to teach moral lessons

Magnum America is not a comprehensive photographic history of the United States