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DIANE ARBUS

DIANE ARBUS. Rachel Vincent Intro to Photography. QUICK FACTS. Born in 1923 Lived in NYC Early Career Started a business in commercial photography with her husband Allan Arbus Became established as a high fashion photographer shooting for magazines like Vogue

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DIANE ARBUS

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  1. DIANE ARBUS Rachel Vincent Intro to Photography

  2. QUICK FACTS • Born in 1923 • Lived in NYC • Early Career • Started a business in commercial photography with her husband Allan Arbus • Became established as a high fashion photographer shooting for magazines like Vogue • Quit in 1956 and developed her signature style of black and white square portraits

  3. “THE Photographer OF FREAKS” • Often photographed transgendered people, dwarfs, twins, circus performers, and other “deviant and marginalized people”

  4. Child with toy hand grenade • “raw and unusual” • “lack of beauty” • “the truth” • “flaws” • “reality” • “negative”

  5. A naked man being a woman

  6. A Jewish Giant at home with his parents in the bronx

  7. Identical twins

  8. Lauro Morales, a Mexican Dwarf, in His Hotel Room

  9. Later career and struggles • Professionally thrived in the 60s • Teacher at the Parson School of Design • Divorced in 1969 • Suffered from mood swings, depression, and hepatitis. Committed suicide in 1971 • Her life and story was the basis of the film Fur, 2006 starring Nicole Kidman as Arbus

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