Diane Arbus
26 October 2012 - 13 January 2013
Diane Arbus (1923-1971) revolutionized the art she
practiced. Her bold subject matter and photographic approach
produced a body of work that is often shocking in its purity, in
its steadfast celebration of things as they are. Her gift for
rendering strange those things we consider most familiar, and for
uncovering the familiar within the exotic, enlarges our
understanding of ourselves.
Arbus found most of her subjects in New York City, a place that
she explored as both a known geography and as a foreign land,
photographing people she discovered during the 1950s and 1960s. She
was committed to photography as a medium that tangles with the
facts. Her contemporary anthropology-portraits of couples,
children, carnival performers, nudists, middle-class families,
transvestites, zealots, eccentrics, and celebrities-stands as an
allegory of the human experience, an exploration of the
relationship between appearance and identity, illusion and belief,
theater and reality.
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