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A fresh look at the photographer’s work in bi-coastal exhibitions traces the depth, discomfort and brilliance of her legacy.
More than half a century after her untimely death, photographer Diane Arbus continues to inspire many people, including author, broadcaster, collector, and former trustee Alvin Hall ’74. A new ...
As he later told Boswell, “I urged Diane not to romanticize ... The point—Arbus’ point—is that all of us are freakish in some way, from birth to death, whether deep down or straight ...
NEW YORK — People have been getting Diane Arbus wrong for so long ... his sleeping face uncannily resembling a death mask.) The 1972-1973 Arbus show, then the most highly attended one-person ...
Diane Arbus with her daughters Doon and Amy ... “Everything that exists of her work is dependent on decisions I have made since her death. It’s astonishing,” says Doon.
Diane Arbus often photographed people on the fringes of society ... 1971 at the age of 48. In 1972, a year after her death, the first major retrospective of Arbus’ work took place at the Museum of ...
The Estate of Diane Arbus In May of 1971 ... As A.D. Coleman wrote in an obituary in the Village Voice, Arbus was interested in “the freakishness of normalcy and the normalcy of freakishness.” ...
Show more Photographer Diane Arbus was born in 1923 and committed ... Alvin Hall sets out to ask why? After Arbus’ death and the 1972 New York MoMA exhibition which launched her posthumous ...