Diane Arbus

A young Brooklyn family going for a Sunday outing, N.Y.C.1966

Identical twins

Estranhas as fotos dela. Quem são estas pessoas? Pesadelos, encenações, todas as hipóteses são prováveis. Talvez uma aproximação ao mundo do circo, que me assusta tanto...

Mas, como no cinema, em que tenho a certeza que as cenas que ficam comigo são o melhor de um filme, destas fotografias, sei também dizer, que não as esquecerei nunca.






Diane Arbus /A Jewish giant at home with his parents in the Bronx, N.Y.1970

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Diane Arbus (1923-1971) casts such an enormous shadow across the inky pages of photographic history that she has become the stuff of Broadway plays and Hollywood biopics. The mythologising of Arbus as the tragic and talented rich, Jewish girl who was said to have identified with the marginal outsiders she photographed is problematic, partly because she was fascinated by them and partly because she took her own life, which seems to ally her with the outsiders she represented and suggest that she was deeply troubled by the world she inhabited."