Magnum Editions: Queen Elizabeth II on tour, Cheshire, England, 1968 Architecture Benidorm – the vast

Benidorm – the vast

The juxtaposition of animal and city—unexpected yet strangely harmonious—captures Morath’s eye for the absurd within the everyday

I am one of those people who love doing such big stories

and shows the degree of comfort that she was able to establish with her subjects while working on their stories

Magnum Editions: Queen Elizabeth II on tour, Cheshire, England, 1968 Architecture Benidorm – the vastIn 1968, Eve Arnold accompanied Queen Elizabeth II on a two day tour of the northwest of England. The trip became a continuation of the stories on Britain that Arnold had begun in 1961, and this image of the Queen surrounded by crowds in Cheshire became the cover image of her book In Britain, published in 1991. Looking back on this particular trip, Arnold wrote: It was raining what is known in Britain as Queens weather. (It rained on her coronation.)