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 Where Diane Arbus Went: A Comprehensive Retrospective, prompts the author to reconsider the short yet powerfully influential career of a photographer whose “fascination with eccentricity and masquerade brought her into an unforeseeable convergence with her era, and made her one of its essential voices. By Leo Rubinfien, Art in America, Oct, 2005 For almost four decades the complex, profound vision of Diane Arbus (1923-1971) has had an en…  By Gerry Badger, Originally Published in Phototexts, 1988 ‘Photography both loots and preserves, denounces and consecrates.’ Susan Sontag1 The principal issue raised by the remarkable photographs of Diane Arbus seems not to be their remarkableness, which few would dispute, but their morality. The very potency of her images, their dangerous, disturbing allure, demands an almost instantaneous moral judgement on the part of the viewer. Her pictu… DIANE ARBUS: “Notes from the Margin of Spoiled Identity – The Art of Diane Arbus” (1988)  The Missing Photographs: An Examination of Diane Arbus’s Images of Transvestites and Homosexuals from 1957 to 1965 By Laureen Trainer Much of the writing and scholarship on Diane Arbus is rooted in psychoanalysis, as scholars attempt to pinpoint the images that signaled her despair, her self-loathing, and her intention to take her own life. Her images of ‘freaks’ and people outside of mainstream society have been examined as expressions of Arb…  Child with a toy hand grenade in Central Park, N.Y.C., 1962 Sister act: Renee Nemerov Brown, Diane Arbus’s sister, has spent her life carving out her own identity. But she does not deny the shadows that darkened their childhood, and which her sister could not escape By Patricia Bosworth Diane Arbus is celebrated for her haunting photographs of nudists, drag queens, celebrities, and suburban couples. But since her 1971 suicide, her life … INTERVIEW: “Interview with Renee Nemerov Brown, Diane Arbus’s Sister” | ||||||||||||||
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