Diane arbus

Posts about Photography written by jonmwessel

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.

Decades since the troubled US photographer took her own life, but her images continue to reveal both her camera's predatory nature, and its humanist impulse.

This summer, the Met Breuer will be showcasing the artist’s early work, much of it never before published or exhibited.

Diane Arbus, Woman in Black Dress

Miss Cora Pratt, the Counterfeit Lady, is fashioned of a set of teeth, an old wig, beads, brooches, feathers and laces out of the attic, and...

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, Self-Portrait in Mirror, 1945

Saul Leiter, Diane Arbus on 10th Street, 1970

The distinctive power of her photographs is in their deep engagement, in her subjects’ frank exposure and our implied complicity.