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All About Eve: The Photography of Eve Arnold

Lardinois was invited to curate this exhibition of Eve Arnold’s photography at the Art Sensus Gallery in London. It was initially planned to celebrate Arnold’s 100th birthday. When Arnold passed away a few months before the exhibition was scheduled to open, the show became a memorial exhibition. The output reflected Lardinois’ knowledge of Arnold’s oeuvre built up over years of working with the material. For the exhibition Lardinois selected 119 images from the archive of the private collector who holds key vintage and exhibition prints of Arnold’s work.

Lardinois first started working with Eve Arnold and her archive in 1996 when, working as Cultural Director of Magnum Photos, she organised the ‘Eve Arnold In Retrospect’ exhibition at the Barbican Art Gallery in London. Over the next ten years Lardinois continued to organise exhibitions for Arnold, conducting research into Arnold’s methods and studying her archive. In 2009, having moved to the University of the Arts London as a Senior Research Fellow, this research resulted in the book ‘Eve Arnold’s People’ (Thames and Hudson). In this book, the first on Arnold to be edited by anyone other than the photographer herself, Lardinois explores Arnold’s portraiture and her place in the history of photojournalism. The book also contains the first comprehensive list of all the projects the photographer undertook during on in her long career, compiled by Lardinois; it was the first publication of a ‘Magnum storylist’.

The exhibition coincided with the publication of a new book, edited by Zelda Cheatle, with whom Lardinois worked closely, so the show and the book would complement each other.

The exhibition was extensively reviewed, including in The Guardian, The Independent, The Observer, The Times, FT Weekend Magazine, and Time Out, as well as on BBC Radio 3 and Radio 4.