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...think you are capable of living without writing," said the German poet Rainer Maria Rilke, "do not write." He didn't live to meet Diane Arbus, but if he had seen her photographs he would have understood her right away. Those portraits of sideshow performers and weeping children, her matter-of-fact nudists and naked transvestites, her pictures of "them," her pictures of "us"--something of consequence is at stake here, and it's not just art. Arbus worked at the point where the voyeuristic and the sacramental converge. She lies in wait for your first misstep in her direction...
...Everyone I know and love is a hero to me in different ways, but especially my mother. If I have to pick from the famous crew, it would be Martin Luther King Jr., Gabriel Garcia Marquez and photographer Diane Arbus. She’s amazing...
Faurer also knew by then that his name was making its way back into the light. In the 1990s art historians had begun to talk about a mid-20th century "New York School" of loosely affiliated street photographers that included Frank, William Klein, Roy de Carava and Diane Arbus. What we see now is that Faurer was a crucial figure in that circle. Was he a second-tier artist? Absolutely. His output was modest. He lacked Arbus' sure instinct for the uncanny and Frank's psychological scope. But what Faurer saw from that lower perch were some things...
...exhibit combines the work of American photographers Hellen Levit, Robert Frank, Diane Arbus, Danny Lyon, Lee Friedlander, Roger Mertin, John Pfahl, and Garry Winogrand, as well as Hungarian photographer Brassai, that, taken together, visually chronicle a developing American sense of self from the 1930's to the late...
...canny shopping and her charms as a donor magnet--plus an endowment that rose from $25 million in 1982 to $448 million last year--it now has a collection of nearly 12,400 images, with deep samplings of masters like Edward Steichen, Andre Kertesz, Robert Frank and Diane Arbus...