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Diane Arbus
LIFE
Diane Arbus was born, to a wealthy Jewish family, in 1923. David Nemerov, her father, was the hardworking son of a Russian immigrant; her mother Gertrude was the daughter ofRussek’s Fur Store.
At the age of 13, she met Allan Arbus, an employee in advertising department of her parent’s store and they married, with her parent’s grudging assent, after she turned 18. Afterthe war, during which Allan studied photography in the New Jersey Signal Corps, the couple supported themselves and daughters (Doon and Yolanda) as fashion photographers.
Diane was a privilegedchild, raised with her two siblings in large apartments on Central Park West and Park Venue. She later told Studs Terkel, for his Hard Times: An Oral History of Depression, “I grew up feeling immune andexempt from circumstance. One of the things I suffered from was that I never felt adversity. I was confirmed in a sense of unreality.”
WORK
An important event in her life was a class she tookwith Lisette Model, a European émigree and photographer who encouraged Arbus, on the one hand, to push further into her schematic interest in unorthodoxy and on the other hand, to master theconventional technical aspects of photography.
By the early 60’s, her commercial portraits, for magazines such as Esquire and Harper’s Bazaar, began to assume a distinctive look. Though taken of mainly oftraditional subjects (actors, writers, activists) they were strange and obscurely troubling. She would spend hours with her subjects, following them to their homes or offices, talking and listening tothem, trying to soften them up to the point where they began to drop their public façade.
Her non-commercial work, for which she was awarded Guggenheim fellowships in 1963 and 1966, orientedtoward the infamous – a couple on a park bench, a young republican, identical twin girls – and the marginal; dwarves, drag queens circus performers.
In 1962, she met John Szarkowski, who had replaced...
LIFE
Diane Arbus was born, to a wealthy Jewish family, in 1923. David Nemerov, her father, was the hardworking son of a Russian immigrant; her mother Gertrude was the daughter ofRussek’s Fur Store.
At the age of 13, she met Allan Arbus, an employee in advertising department of her parent’s store and they married, with her parent’s grudging assent, after she turned 18. Afterthe war, during which Allan studied photography in the New Jersey Signal Corps, the couple supported themselves and daughters (Doon and Yolanda) as fashion photographers.
Diane was a privilegedchild, raised with her two siblings in large apartments on Central Park West and Park Venue. She later told Studs Terkel, for his Hard Times: An Oral History of Depression, “I grew up feeling immune andexempt from circumstance. One of the things I suffered from was that I never felt adversity. I was confirmed in a sense of unreality.”
WORK
An important event in her life was a class she tookwith Lisette Model, a European émigree and photographer who encouraged Arbus, on the one hand, to push further into her schematic interest in unorthodoxy and on the other hand, to master theconventional technical aspects of photography.
By the early 60’s, her commercial portraits, for magazines such as Esquire and Harper’s Bazaar, began to assume a distinctive look. Though taken of mainly oftraditional subjects (actors, writers, activists) they were strange and obscurely troubling. She would spend hours with her subjects, following them to their homes or offices, talking and listening tothem, trying to soften them up to the point where they began to drop their public façade.
Her non-commercial work, for which she was awarded Guggenheim fellowships in 1963 and 1966, orientedtoward the infamous – a couple on a park bench, a young republican, identical twin girls – and the marginal; dwarves, drag queens circus performers.
In 1962, she met John Szarkowski, who had replaced...
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