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
worry people traumatic-experiences
Most people go through life dreading they'll have a traumatic experience.
photography teacher people
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.
people littles photographer
I'm very little drawn to photographing people that are known or even subjects that are known. They fascinate me when I've barely heard of them.
should-have people ironic
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.
photography people tests
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.
attention camera curiosity hard house mean mighty paid people plus reasonable talk
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.
belief believes deception easier man
Nothing is easier than self-deceit. For what each man wishes, that he also believes to be true.
choices deep developer haunting mean mostly moves mysterious paper somebody time
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.
adult american-photographer catch discover maturity wear
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.
american-photographer
My favourite thing is to go where I've never been.
mother growing-up rubber
When you're growing 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.
discouragement masquerade impossibility
The discouragement masquerades as the impossibility.
nudists different nudity
Nudists are fond of saying that when you come right down to it everyone is alike, and, again, that when you come right down to it everyone is different.
self gaps intention
[Our self-image is] that gap between intention and effect