Robert Miller Gallery, New York
Aperture, Diane Arbus, n.p.
Aperture, Diane Arbus: Magazine Work, p. 146
Arbus, Sussman, Phillips, Selkirk and Rosenheim, Diane Arbus: Revelations, p. 247
Green, American Photography: A Critical History 1945-Present, p. 196
The Museum of Modern Art, Diane Arbus, n.p.
Lee and Pultz, Diane Arbus: Family Albums, pl. 20
Weski and Dexter, Cruel and Tender: The Real in the 20th-Century Photograph, pp. 235 and 256
Weski and Liesbrock, How You Look At It: Photographs of the 20th Century, p. 288
Esquire, May 1971, p. 11
New York Times Magazine, 5 November 5 1972, p. 38
American • 1923 - 1971
Transgressing traditional boundaries, Diane Arbus is known for her highly desirable, groundbreaking portraiture taken primarily in the American Northeast during the late 1950s and 1960s. Famous for establishing strong personal relationships with her subjects, Arbus' evocative images capture them in varied levels of intimacy. Whether in their living rooms or on the street, their surreal beauty transcends the common distance found in documentary photography.
Taken as a whole, Arbus' oeuvre presents the great diversity of American society — nudists, twins, babies, beauty queens and giants — while each distinct image brings the viewer into contact with an exceptional individual brought to light through Arbus' undeniable genius.
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