For me the subject of the picture is always more important than the picture. And more complicated. – Diane Arbus. Человеку дарована лишь одна радость – ощущение жизни, когда она достигает ...
I think I first read about Diane Arbus (1923-1971), when already in England. As Frank van Riper indicates in his article, she indeed is often introduced as someone who documented “the lives of t...
“Time will say nothing, but I told you so/ Time only knows the price we have to pay“, soberly reflected Wystan Hugh Auden in his well-known poem. Diane Arbus, when working on a feature for...
I pondered a lot on the problem I have with identifying myself or other people in one way or another. The generic “identity-search”, to which we are so often subjected these days, is usual...
I‘ve just read and went through Diane Arbus: An Aperture Monograph , picking up many valuable quotes. In the few of them below Arbus discusses the intriguing gap between intention and effect, as...