Inscribed to Her Editor
Eve Arnold: In Retrospect
Publication: New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1995. First Edition.
Notes: A survey of this noted photographer's long career with her prose commentary. This copy is inscribed to her friend and long-time editor, Robert Gottlieb, who she thanks in the acknowledgments of this book.
Arnold was the first woman to join Magnum Photos, the photo agency co-op whose members included Robert Capa and Henri Cartier-Bresson, among many other important artists.
Gottlieb is best-known for editing Joseph Heller's Catch-22 when he was at Simon and Schuster; he spent most of his career at Knopf, perhaps the most prestigious literary publisher in the US, with a five-year stint as the editor of The New Yorker (which shared ownership with Knopf).
In his memoir, Avid Reader, Gottlieb wrote about Arnold: "... the remarkable photojournalist Eve Arnold...came into our lives in the late 1960s and never departed until severe old age ungenerously robbed her of her amazing vigor and vitality... Eve was tiny, tough, feminine, loving, and wonderful to work with. We saw eye to eye and were hand in hand and cheek by jowl through the half dozen or so books we did together over the years... John Huston deployed her on the sets of many of his films, including The Misfits. [She was] trusted not only by him but by Marilyn Monroe, Clark Gable, and Arthur Miller. But then everybody trusted Eve, from Joan Crawford to Mongolian herdsmen to women in purdah."
Edition + Condition: First edition (stated, with no indication of later printings). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. This copy is inscribed to Robert Gottlieb, "For my beloved Robert / my love and my gratitude. You made everything possible. / Eve." Gottlieb laid into this copy a short typed note from his boss, Si Newhouse, who co-owned Knopf and The New Yorker at the time, congratulating Gottlieb for this book.
ISBN: 0394578503
Item No: #29090
Price: $350