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...result is a whimsical, slightly frightening caricature of reality. But even more striking is the kind of caricature used in a two-frame sequence by Eve Sonneman, whose work attracted the interest of Diane Arbus. The first of these frames shows the head and left side of a man rowing a small boat, watching another boat approaching from behind. The second frame, right beside it, shows only the man's right shoulder, arm and bar, but in the background the second boat has now passed by. The eye leaps the frame, unites the two sides of the man's body...
...acceptance of photography as an art procured for it the first National Endowment Grant for photography. Such foresight is evidenced further by Pratt's selectors for its exhibition. Top billing is given to lesser-established artists, although a few 20th century masters, such as Walker Evans, Paul Strand, Diane Arbus. Berenice Abbott and Minor White have adequate representation for comparison...
Women seem to have a larger role in photography than they have had in the other contemporary arts, and their work is strong. Diane Arbus, whose retrospective is currently at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, speaks with the power of social critic as poignant and shocking as the biting poetry of sylvia plath. Her portrait of identical twins stores at us not with the duality of nature's superior creation, but with the power to draw us into an interaction with their freak world; her portraits do not scare us away, but take us directly into...
...fine, bony features straight-on and in profile, her legs bent to the right and to the left--symmetrically reposed--and openly exposed in the upper righthand corner. An umbrella in the lower right of the photo encourages further connections to Degas dancers and promenades. Like Arbus, there is not the capturing of an instant but the participation and acceptance of the photographer in the environment: the girl gases directly and unremittingly into the camera...
...Diane Arbus was no outsider herself. Her father, David Nemerov, was the owner of a clothing store on Fifth Avenue, her brother Howard a widely respected poet. At 18 she married Allan Arbus, and for nearly two decades they were successful partners in fashion photography. Then they separated. Diane moved to Greenwich Village with her two daughters. Already, she had begun to take photographs that had nothing to do with fashion...