Diane arbus

She was perhaps the most radical photographer of the 20th century. A new biography and Met exhibit make clear just how much she had to give up to get there.

Chris Wiley interviews the photographer Bruce Davidson on his work, including projects documenting the Freedom Riders, life in Harlem, and Brooklyn gangs, and whose career is the subject of an exhibition on view at Howard Greenberg Gallery, in Manhattan.

Diane Arbus (March 14, 1923 – July 26, 1971) was an American photographer and writer noted for black-and-white square photographs of “deviant and marginal people (dwarfs, giants, transvestite…

A new show in Denmark offers European audiences a chance to re-engage with Diane Arbus' body of work – enduring for its emotional complexity.

diane arbus: in the beginning considers the first seven years of the photographer’s career, from 1956 to 1962. A lifelong New Yorker, Arbus found the city and its citizens an endlessly rich subject for her art. Working in Times Square, the Lower East Side, and Coney Island, she made some of the most powerful portraits […]

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