Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, 2009
E. Sussman & S. Phillips, Diane Arbus: Revelations, London: Jonathan Cape, 2003, p. 84, 184
Women Artists: Elles at Centre Pompidou, Paris: Centre Pompidou, 2009, p. 45
Diane Arbus: An Aperture Monograph, New York: Aperture, 2012, n.p.
E. Respini, Cindy Sherman, New York: MoMA, 2012, p. 74
S. Hermanson Meister, Arbus, Friedlander, Winogrand: New Documents 1967, New York: MoMA, 2017, p. 32, 56, 135
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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