Brothels, bartenders and film stars: Eve Arnold’s women – in pictures

Charlotte Stribling, or ‘Fabulous’, does stretching exercises between modelling appearances at the Abyssinian Church, Harlem, 1950

In 1950, having spent several years working at a Kodak processing factory in New Jersey, Arnold developed an interest in photography. Encouraged by her nanny, she signed up to a six-week photography course in Manhattan led by Harper’s Bazaar’s influential art director, Alexey Brodovitch