She was appointed an Honorary Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 2003. She lived in Mayfair for many years until her last illness, when she moved to a nursing home in St George's Square, Pimlico. When Anjelica Huston asked if she was still doing photography, Arnold replied: "That's over. I can't hold a camera any more." She said she spent most of her time reading such writers as Fyodor Dostoevsky, Thomas Mann and Leo Tolstoy. One of her last photos is of her grandson when he came to visit her for a photography lesson in 1994. She describes in her diary entry of that day the bond between photographer, subject, and camera that is necessary for a portrait. She continued to stress her style of simplicity in photos with natural lighting and lack of posing and embellishments. She sums up "curiosity" as a one-word description of her driving force that led to her career of which was described as a friend as "a one-woman cultural exchange". Death Arnold died in London on January 4, 2012, aged 99, three months shy of her centenary. Selected works Photographs Fashion Show, behind the scenes, 1950 Marilyn Monroe, 1960. Jacqueline Kennedy arranging flowers with daughter Caroline, 1961. Horse Training for the Militia in Inner Mongolia, 1979. Books The Unretouched Woman, 1976. Flashback: The 50s, Knopf, 1978. In China, Knopf, 1980. In America, Knopf, 1983. The Making of the White Nights, 1985 Marilyn Monroe: An Appreciation, Knopf, 1987. All in a Day's Work, Bantam, 1989. The Great British, Knopf, 1991. In Retrospect, Knopf, 1995. Film Journal, Bloomsbury, 2002. Handbook, 2005 Marilyn Monroe 2005 Eve Arnold's People 2010 All About Eve, 2012 Awards Honorary Degree of Doctor of Science, University of St. Andrews, Scotland, 1997. Honorary Degree of Doctor of Letters, Staffordshire University. Doctor of Humanities, Richmond, the American International University in London. Master Photographer, International Center of Photography, NYC. Honorary Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) by the British Government. Lifetime Achievement Award, the Sony World Photography Awards, 2010. National Book Award for In China, 1980 References External links Official website of the estate of Eve Arnold Portraits by Eve Arnold in the collection of the National Portrait Gallery, London Gerhard Bissell, Arnold, Eve, Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon (Artists of the World), Suppl. I, Saur, Munich 2005, from pg. 458 (in German). Emily Meyer Pomper, Arnold, Eve, in: Encyclopedia of