Diane Arbus
Diane Arbus March 14, 1923 – July 26, 1971)
was an American photographer and writer noted for black-and-white square photographs of "deviant
and marginal people (dwarfs, giants, transgender people, nudists, circus performers) or of people whose normality
seems ugly or surreal. Diane believed that a camera could be “a little bit cold, a little bit harsh” but its
scrutiny revealed the truth; the difference between what people wanted others to see and what they really did see – the flaws. A friend said that Arbus said that she was "afraid . . . that she would be known
simply as 'the photographer of freaks'"; however, that phrase has been used repeatedly to describe her. She commited suicide in 1971, but her work lives on . See the film below documented by her daughter.
was an American photographer and writer noted for black-and-white square photographs of "deviant
and marginal people (dwarfs, giants, transgender people, nudists, circus performers) or of people whose normality
seems ugly or surreal. Diane believed that a camera could be “a little bit cold, a little bit harsh” but its
scrutiny revealed the truth; the difference between what people wanted others to see and what they really did see – the flaws. A friend said that Arbus said that she was "afraid . . . that she would be known
simply as 'the photographer of freaks'"; however, that phrase has been used repeatedly to describe her. She commited suicide in 1971, but her work lives on . See the film below documented by her daughter.