Arnold, Eve. Flashback! The 50's by Eve Arnold.

Knopf, 1978. First edition, illustrated boards (not issued with dust jacket), ex-library, card pocket removed, minor edge wear, visible ripples on cover coating where spine labels neatly removed. 151 pages. Profusely illustrated with Arnold’s black and white photographs. Subjects include Dwight D. Eisenhower; Richard Nixon; Joseph McCarthy; Marilyn Monroe; Johnny Mathis; Dave Brubeck; David Oistrakh; James Cagney; Josephine Baker; Jayne Mansfield; African American Debutantes; Oral Roberts; Lynne Fontaine; Mary Martin, Joan Crawford, Lawrence Olivier, Arthur Miller; Mary Rockefeller, Edward Steichen, René d’Harnoncourt; Miss America Pageant; and many other unidentified people. 

Eve Arnold (1912–2012) was an American photojournalist who gained prominence as one of the first female photographers to join the prestigious Magnum Photos agency, becoming a full member in 1957. Born in Philadelphia, she first began experimenting with photography in 1946 while working at a photo-finishing plant and later honed her craft under Alexei Brodovitch at the New School for Social Research in New York. Known for her intimate, naturalistic approach that avoided heavy studio lighting or intrusive setups, Arnold captured iconic portraits of world figures and celebrities—most notably Marilyn Monroe, Queen Elizabeth II, and Malcolm X—alongside compassionate documentary projects depicting migrant workers, South African shanty towns, and everyday life in China, Mongolia, and the Soviet Union. Later relocating to England, she published numerous acclaimed photobooks—such as The Unretouched Woman(1976) and In China (1980)—and earned widespread international recognition, including an honorary OBE, the Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Society of Magazine Photographers, and being named a Master Photographer by the International Center of Photography.