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...prostitutes, barflies, transvestites and others living on the margins of society ever had a portraitist, it was Diane Arbus. The New York City-born photographer produced some of the most memorable portraits ever made before her suicide in 1971, and the best have been gathered for a major retrospective of her work at London's Victoria and Albert Museum (www.vam.ac.uk), showing between now and next January. Her most iconic images are present: the giant stooping under the ceiling Loh and Behold Avant-garde murals and imaginative furnishings characterise a new Singapore hotel Identity Parade An iconic style magazine marks...
...film cast that includes a werewolf woman and a boy with a memorable birthmark, it helps to have a traditional beauty in the lead. NICOLE KIDMAN is playing Diane Arbus in Fur, which director Steven Shainberg calls his "fairy tale for adults," a fictional take on three months in the provocative photographer's life. The Bewitched star's "subtlety and mysteriousness" (not, this time, her nose) channel Arbus, says Shainberg, who directed Secretary. Arbus was most famous for her photos of sideshow freaks. Did we mention that Robert Downey Jr. also stars...
...cartwheeling Lee Friedlander retrospective that settles into the Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) in New York City this week arrives just days after the very popular Diane Arbus retrospective completed its New York run at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Friedlander comes, Arbus goes. You imagine them saluting each other with whistle blasts like ships passing at sea. That's in part because their shows are the latest development in a process that began in 1967, when they were both introduced to a wider public in a pivotal MOMA exhibition that was entirely devoted to them and a third relative...
...years that followed, Arbus, with her I-dare-you-to-look pictures and her untimely death by suicide, would become a legend. Winogrand, who died in 1984, and Friedlander, now 70, settled for becoming enormously influential photographers. But it's only now, with this MOMA show of 500-plus images, that we understand how fiercely delightful and original Friedlander is. If a sophisticated notion of what a picture can look like, the continuous construction of new avenues of feeling, and sheer, sustained inventiveness are the measures we go by, then Friedlander is one of the most important American artists...
...Unlike Arbus, who distilled every image down to a single, devastating idea, Friedlander loves the muchness of the world. He loves the haphazard multitude of things that can pop up in every picture--street signs, sunbeams, bits of roofline, a jagged shadow--all colliding and contradicting one another. In his breezy but very acute introduction to the show's catalog, Peter Galassi, MOMA's chief curator of photography, gets it just right when he says some of Friedlander's pictures give you the impression that "the physical world had been broken into fragments and reconstituted under pressure at three times...