Diane Arbus
American · 1923–1971
Photographer who turned her lens on marginalized and unconventional subjects, challenging norms of beauty and normalcy with unflinching intimacy.
Wikipedia ↗“A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know.”
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“My favorite thing is to go where I've never been.”
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“Everybody has that thing where they need to look one way but they come out looking another way and that's what people observe.”
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“Nothing is ever the same as they said it was. It's what I've never seen before that I recognize.”
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“There's a quality of legend about freaks. Like a person in a fairy tale who stops you and demands that you answer a riddle.”
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“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.”
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“I do feel I have some slight corner on something about the quality of things. I mean it's very subtle and a little embarrassing to me, but I really believe there are things which nobody would see unless I photographed them.”
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“I really believe there are things nobody would see if I didn't photograph them.”
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“The subject of the picture is always more important than the picture.”
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