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Diane Arbus. 14 March 1923 – 26 July 19 71. Married to her childhood sweat heart, Allan Arbus, in 1941 They started at commercial photography business together Has two children named Doon and . Yolanda Allan and Diane divorced in 1969
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Diane Arbus 14 March1923 – 26 July1971
Married to her childhood sweat heart, Allan Arbus, in 1941 • They started at commercial photography business together • Has two children named Doon and . Yolanda • Allan and Diane divorced in 1969 • In ’71 she took (only 48 years old) her own life after suffering form depression.
Child with a toy hand grenade in Central Park, N.Y.C.1961 Two Ladies at the Automat (New York City), 1966, printed 1977 “It's a little bit like walking into an hallucination without being quite sure whose it is. I was really flabbergasted the first time. I had never seen that many men naked, I had never seen that many people naked all at once. The first man I saw was mowing his lawn.” Diane Arbus
really believe there are things nobody would see if I didn't photograph them. Tattooed man at caravel 1970 Masked women in wheel chair1970
A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know. Woman on the Street with Her Eyes Closed, 1956 A Family On Their Lawn One Sundayin Westchester, New york 1969
A young man with curlers at home on West 20th Street, N.Y.C.,’1966 • I never have taken a picture I've intended. They're always better or worse.
A Jewish Giant at home with his parents 1970 • I work from awkwardness. By that I mean I don't like to arrange things. If I stand in front of something, instead of arranging it, I arrange myself.
The thing that's important to know is that you never know. You're always sort of feeling your way. Russian Midget Friends in a Living Room on 100th Street, N.Y.C 1963 Diane Arbus, A young Brooklyn Family going for a Sunday outing, N.Y.C. 1966
Shows irony by the fact that they are young teen’s but they appear as a 40 year old couple. Texture from the grounded and the wall Complex My favorite picture Teenage couple on Hudson Street, N.Y.C.1963
References • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diane_Arbus • http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/arbus.html • http://www.picsearch.com/pictures/celebrities/artists%20and%20painters/artists%201/diane%20arbus.html