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 Diane Arbus’ Noah’s Ark of Humanity – A legendary photographer’s unfinished book By Randall Decoteau This article was written in response to the exhibit Diane Arbus: Family Albums at the Portland Museum of Art. In 1968, three years before her suicide, the great American photographer Diane Arbus (1923-1971) wrote that she was compiling her photographs into a ‘Family Album,’ likening it to a ‘Noah’s Ark’ and imagining in it the people wh…  Out of the Cool – Lee Friedlander at the V&A By Gerry Badger, from Creative Camera (1991) ‘That scrawny cry – it was A chorister whose c preceded the choir It was part of the colossal sun, Surrounded by its choral rings, Still far away. It was like A new knowledge of reality.’ Wallace Stevens1 The second essay I ever wrote upon the subject of photography was about the work of Lee Friedlander, on the occasion of an exhibition o…  Interview with Artist Cindy Sherman – A Woman of Parts Art in America, June, 1997 by Noriko Fuku Cindy Sherman has been one of the most widely exhibited and discussed artists of her generation. She first attracted attention around 1980 with her black-and-white Untitled Film Stills, in which, employing sometimes elaborate costuming and staging, she assumed a variety of female personas familiar from American and European cinema. Sherman… INTERVIEW: “Interview with Artist Cindy Sherman – A Woman of Parts” (1997)  “The Thing Itself is Such a Secret and so Unapproachable” George Eastman House, Image Magazine, Vol. 17., No.4, December, 1974, Originally Published in Yale Alumni Magazine, February, 1974. Walker Evans, the eminent American photographer, who taught photography at Yale until his retirement several years ago, talks informally with today’s students about his life, his art and the mysteries of the creative process… W.E. &… INTERVIEW: Walker Evans – “The Thing Itself is Such a Secret and so Unapproachable” (1974) | ||||||||||||||
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