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
Diane Arbus quotes about
cameras photographer kind
The camera is a kind of license.
beautiful thinking photographer
I think the most beautiful inventions are the ones you don't think of.
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.
trying cameras photographer
The camera is cruel, so I try to be as good as I can to make things even.
photography photographer
The more specific you are, the more general it'll be.
mean photographer feels
...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.
photography important photographer
For me, the subject of the picture is always more important than the picture.
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.
worry people traumatic-experiences
Most people go through life dreading they'll have a traumatic experience.
self gaps intention
[Our self-image is] that gap between intention and effect
secret surprise
Shoot for the secrets, develop for the surprises
photography crazy mean
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.
photography dog lying
One thing I would never photograph is a dog lying in the mud.
photography moving mean
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.