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Diane Arbus
Diane Arbus

Diane Arbus was an American photographer known for her unique subject matter. Her photos were square black-and-white pictures taken of "deviant and marginal people," such as transvestites, dwarfs, giants, prostitutes, and circus performers. A year after her suicide in 1971, Arbus became the first American to have her photography shown in the contemporary art exhibition Venice Biennale.

Date of Birth: Dec 02, 0
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Diane Arbus

"When you grow up your mother says, 'Wear rubbers or you'll catch cold.' When you become an adult you discover that you have the right not to wear rubbers and to see if you catch cold or not. It's something like that." — Diane Arbus
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Adulthood    American Photographer   

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"Nothing is easier than self-deceit. For what each man wishes, that he also believes to be true." — Diane Arbus
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Belief    Deceit   

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"The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind." — Diane Arbus
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Action   

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"I really believe there are things nobody would see if I didn't photograph them." — Diane Arbus
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American Photographer    Photography   

Diane Arbus

"Nothing is ever the same as they said it was." — Diane Arbus
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Diane Arbus

"If I were just curious, it would be very hard to say to someone, ''I want to come to your house and have you talk to me and tell me the story of your life.'' I mean people are going to say, ''You're crazy.'' Plus they're going to keep mighty guarded. But the camera is a kind of license. A lot of people, they want to be paid that much attention and that's a reasonable kind of attention to be paid." — Diane Arbus
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Diane Arbus

"Everybody has that thing where they need to look one way but they come out looking another way and that's what people observe. You see someone on the street and essentially what you notice about them is the flaw. It's just extraordinary that we should have been given these peculiarities. Something is ironic in the world and it has to do with the fact that what you intend never comes out like you intend it." — Diane Arbus
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Diane Arbus

"Most people go through life dreading they'll have a traumatic experience. Freaks were born with their trauma. They've already passed their test in life. They're aristocrats." — Diane Arbus
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Diane Arbus

"There are an awful lot of people in the world and it's going to be terribly hard to photograph all of them... It was my teacher Lisette Model who finally made it clear to me that the more specific you are, the more general it will be." — Diane Arbus
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Diane Arbus

"Amy Arbus: Rites and Rituals" — Diane Arbus
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Diane Arbus

"What moves me about...what's called technique...is that it comes from some mysterious deep place. I mean it can have something to do with the paper and the developer and all that stuff, but it comes mostly from some very deep choices somebody has made that take a long time and keep haunting them." — Diane Arbus
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Diane Arbus

"It gets to seem as if way back in the Garden of Eden after the Fall, Adam and Eve had begged the Lord to forgive them and He, in his boundless exasperation, had said, ''All right, then. Stay. Stay in the Garden. Get civilized. Procreate. Muck it up.'' And they did." — Diane Arbus
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Diane Arbus

"These are characters in a fairy tale for grown-ups. Wouldn't it be lovely? Yes." — Diane Arbus
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Diane Arbus

"The more specific you are, the more general it'll be." — Diane Arbus
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Diane Arbus

"I always thought of photography as a naughty thing to do - that was one of my favorite things about it, and when I first did it, I felt very perverse." — Diane Arbus
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American Photographer    Photography   

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"The thing that's important to know is that you never know. You're always sort of feeling your way." — Diane Arbus
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Diane Arbus

"You see someone on the street, and essentially what you notice about them is the flaw." — Diane Arbus
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Diane Arbus

"A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know." — Diane Arbus
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"Love involves a peculiar unfathomable combination of understanding and misunderstanding" — Diane Arbus
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Cute    Love   

Diane Arbus

"They are the proof of something was there and no longer is.
Like a stain. And the stillness of them is boggling.
You can turn away but when you come back they'll still be there looking at you." — Diane Arbus
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Diane Arbus

"My favorite thing is to go where I've never been" — Diane Arbus
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