Photographer Eve Arnold RIP

Eve Arnold's most memorable shots – in pictures

A look back at some of the defining images of the career of the Philadelphia-born photographer, who has died aged 99. A member of the famous Magnum agency, Arnold was perhaps best known for her sensitive images of Marilyn Monroe taken throughout her career

Marilyn Monroe resting, 1955. Photograph: Eve Arnold/Magnum Photos

Malcolm X, Chicago, 1961. Photograph: Eve Arnold/Magnum Photos

Joan Crawford, Los Angeles, 1959. Photograph: Eve Arnold/Magnum Photos

Eve Arnold, left, with Marilyn Monroe during the filming of The Misfits, 1960. Photograph: Eve Arnold/Magnum Photos

Horse training for the militia, Inner Mongolia, China, 1979. Photograph: Eve Arnold/Magnum Photos

Widow Needing Companion. Dora Grubb and amateur painter at The Royal Academy of Arts, London 1961. Photograph: Eve Arnold/Magnum Photos

Father Gregory Wilkins, Director of the society of the sacred mission at Kelham, Nottingham, 1963. Photograph: Eve Arnold/Magnum Photos

Marilyn Monroe, Long Island, New York, 1955. Photograph: Eve Arnold/Magnum Photos

Permanent Wave, China, 1979. Photograph: Eve Arnold/Magnum Photos

Dubai, United Arab Emirates, 1971. Photograph: Eve Arnold/Magnum

Anthony Quinn and Anna Karina on the set of Guy Green's The Magus, Mallorca, 1976. Photograph: Eve Arnold/Magnum

Bar girl in a brothel in the red light district, Havana, Cuba, 1954. Photograph: Eve Arnold/Magnum Photos

Richard Burton And Elizabeth Taylor at the local pub in Shepperton, UK, 1963. Photograph: Eve Arnold/Magnum

Marlene Dietrich at the recording studios of Columbia Records, 1952. Photograph: Eve Arnold/Magnum

Eve Arnold on the set of Becket, 1963. Photograph: Robert Penn/Magnum Photos

Eve Arnold, 1997. Photograph: Jane Bown for The Observer

eddie wrote:
Marilyn Monroe, Long Island, New York, 1955. Photograph: Eve Arnold/Magnum Photos

Either Marilyn has ploughed her way right through the whole gigantic volume or she's skipped to Molly Bloom's sexy soliloquy at the end. Yes!