Diane Arbus
Diane Arbus
Diane Arbuswas an American photographer and writer noted for photographs of marginalized people—dwarfs, giants, transgender people, nudists, circus performers —and others whose normality was perceived by the general populace as ugly or surreal...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPhotographer
Date of Birth14 March 1923
CityNew York City, NY
CountryUnited States of America
inspirational photography taken
I never have taken a picture I've intended. They're always better or worse.
crazy would-be cameras
If I didn't have a camera, the things I do would be crazy.
identity left
We've all got an identity. You can't avoid it. It's what's left when you take everything else away.
inspirational success uplifting
The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.
reality way enough
If you scrutinize reality closely enough, if in some way you really, really get to it, it becomes fantastic.
thinking creepy way
I think all families are creepy in a way.
photography mistake brightness
I don't know what good composition is.... Sometimes for me composition has to do with a certain brightness or a certain coming to restness and other times it has to do with funny mistakes. There's a kind of rightness and wrongness and sometimes I like rightness and sometimes I like wrongness.
mean thinking boredom
The Chinese have a theory that you pass through boredom into fascination and I think it's true. I would never choose a subject for what it means to me or what I think about it. You've just got to choose a subject - and what you feel about it, what it means, begins to unfold if you just plain choose a subject and do it enough.
photography naughty favorites-things
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.
fall men sea
If the fall of man consists in the separation of god and the devil the serpent must have appeared out of the middle of the apple when Eve bit like the original worm in it, splitting it in half and sundering everything which was once one into a pair of opposites, so the world is Noah's ark on the sea of eternity containing all the endless pairs of things, irreconcilable and inseparable, and heat will always long for cold and the back for the front and smiles for tears and mutt for jeff and no for yes with the most unutterable nostalgia there is.
life photography nature
My favorite thing is to go where I've never been.
mean magic way
There's a kind of power thing about the camera. I mean everyone knows you've got some edge. You're carrying some magic which does something to them. It fixes them in a way.
photography important photographer
For me, the subject of the picture is always more important than the picture.
Take pictures of what you fear.