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
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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.
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My favourite thing is to go where I've never been.
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The camera is a kind of license.
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I think the most beautiful inventions are the ones you don't think of.
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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.
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The camera is cruel, so I try to be as good as I can to make things even.
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The more specific you are, the more general it'll be.
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...I would never choose a subject for what it means to me. I choose a subject and then what I feel about it, what it means, begins to unfold.
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For me, the subject of the picture is always more important than the picture.
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Nothing is easier than self-deceit. For what each man wishes, that he also believes to be true.
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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.
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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.
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Most people go through life dreading they'll have a traumatic experience.
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The discouragement masquerades as the impossibility.