Hello I'm Krestey Young and this is a podcast from the Desert Island Discs archive.

For rights reasons, we've had to shorten the music.

The program was originally broadcast in 1996 and the presenter was Sue Lolly. My cast way this week is a photographer. She was born in Philadelphia more than 70 years ago, the daughter of immigrant Russian Jews.

Her passion for photography began in her teens with the present of a camera and has continued throughout her long and adventurous life.

Marilyn Monroe, Joan, Crawford, Paul Newman and many other stars have fallen under the

spell of her lens. She's also travelled the world in search of arresting pictures, living with

hippie communes or the Black Power Movement. Today she's regarded as one of the

world's outstanding photojournalists, defining the secret of her skill as showing you

something you wouldn't have seen if the photographer hadn't shown it to you. She is

Eve Arnold. Can you can't

something you couldn't see with the naked eye

or is it directing the eye towards some?

No, it is a point of view.

It's focusing in closely on something that appeals or repels.

It's like writing a lead sentence. It does that kind of thing.

It says stop here, look at this.

And look at this.

And it says, this is the way I see it.

But do you, when you see something, do you see it with the photographer's eye?

Well, of course you do, but do you suddenly look at it and think I know how I could make that look through the lens?

Well, what the photographer tries to do is to give meaning to whatever it is he's seeing and is trying to communicate that

meaning beyond his own vision to the person who is viewing that picture.

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