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
secret surprise
Shoot for the secrets, develop for the surprises
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
hurt thinking doe
I think it does, a little, hurt to be photographed.
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.
photography tragedy skins
What I'm trying to describe is that it's impossible to get out of your skin into somebody else's.... That somebody else's tragedy is not the same as your own.
vices photograph vice-versa
One thing that struck me early is that you don’t put into a photograph what’s going to come out. Or, vice versa, what comes out is not what you put in.
lying book rainbow
... I must begin at whatever pace is possible, to work on the book of my own that i vaguely keep assuming lies at the end of the rainbow. It is after all my rainbow and if I don't do it no one else will...Survival is the secret so you really can't afford to doubt yourself for long because you are all you've got. The only thing to do is to go the limit with it. Exceed.
cameras photographer kind
The camera is a kind of license.
photography mountain littles
And the revelation was a little like what saints receive on mountains - a further chapter in the history of the mystery.
photography conditions conversion
The condition of photographing is maybe the condition of being on the brink of conversion to anything.