March 2, 2012 10:08 pm

Slideshow: What Eve Arnold saw

Eve Arnold photographed some of the most memorable people and places in the second half of the 20th century

Migrant potato pickers' shack, Long Island, New York, 1951
Malcolm X, Chicago, 1961
Preparing for a fashion show, Harlem, New York, 1951
Activists are trained not to react to provocation by whites, Petersburg, Virginia, US, 1960
Girls sharing an apartment in Knightsbridge, London, 1961
Laurence Olivier and Marilyn Monroe at the Waldorf Astoria Ballroom prior to the filming of 'The Prince and the Showgirl', 1956
Arthur Miller lunches with Marilyn Monroe during the filming of John Huston's 'The Misfits', Nevada, US, 1960
Italian model Benedette Bargini and photographer Gordon Parks, New York, 1964
Roy Cohn and Senator Joe McCarthy, Washington DC, 1954
A woman and a boy take a protest walk across a segregated 'whites-only' lakefront, Virginia, US, 1960
Television, China, 1979
Marilyn Monroe at a casino in Reno, US, during the filming of 'The Misfits', 1960
A classroom in the village of Kuban, USSR, 1966
Hubert's Museum, Times Square, New York, 1950
Migrant potato pickers on Long Island, New York, 1951
Potato pickers on Long Island. On the back of one of Arnold's original prints, she describes her horror at the conditions in which they lived
James Brown, Harlem, New York City, 1968
A midwife checks a baby at the Charles Johnson Memorial Hospital, Ngutu, Zululand, South Africa, 1973
Watching filming of 'Life at the Top', based on John Braine's novel, Yorkshire, 1965
A member of the Royal Society of Birdwatchers, England, 1964

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