Eve Arnold

Eve Arnold's photographs of China, made in 1979, are the subject of a new show at London's Asia House through Jan. 12, and there's a good preview up at The Economist. In part: "Ms Arnold's portrait of the country, supervised as she was by tourist-bureau officials, is respectful rather than penetrating. Yet the tranquil images—of a Mongolian herdsman silhouetted against the steppes, an ancient woman peering from a dark doorway, a rosy-cheeked accountant flicking the beads on her abacus, a girl stretching noodles like a skein of wool—all reveal a rapport with her subjects and a humanity that characterises both Ms Arnold's work and the Magnum ethos."

6 November 2007 by Hart Van Denburg

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