pictures that are both intrusions and encapsulations of privacy. “My favorite thing is to go where I’ve never been,” Arbus once said--one of many telling wall quotes. Sometimes in the ...

This summer, the Met Breuer will be showcasing the artist's early work, much of it never before published or exhibited. Here is a guide from the show's curator. Related Article Girl with a pointy ...

But some found her images disturbing, even repellent: critic Susan Sontag, for example, called her portraits of “assorted monsters and border-line cases. . . . anti-humanist.” Arbus’ work ...

They didn’t deliver on that front; we’ve since seen too many photos of naked transgressors, many taken by artists inspired by Arbus, to be shocked by their subject matter. But what is ...

(No new estate-approved prints of Arbus’s pictures have been made since 2003.) The name, “Cataclysm,” refers to the unexpected impact of the retrospective. “The pictures had a cataclysmic ...

Diane Arbus in Central Park with her Mamiya camera in 1967. Tod Papageorge “I love to go to people’s houses,” Diane Arbus once told a reporter, “exploring — doing daring things I’ve ...

Whether in painting, music, literature, as in all the Arts, we tend to know the masters’ oeuvres inside-out. We know Johannes Vermeer had 34 paintings; we know that Beethoven had nine symphonies.

American photographer Diane Arbus was born on March 14, 1923. Known for her images of individuals on the fringes of society, including dwarfs, circus performers, the mentally ill, and ...

Arbus was transparent in many ways, but mysterious in so many others, starting with how she decided on the ten photos included in the portfolio. “She has left virtually no information about that ...

Thirty years later, American photographer Diane Arbus inherited Brassaï's vision. We were used to having our pictures taken by the 1960s. But Arbus' focus was new. In black and white, she ...