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Biography

Name: Diane Nemerov Arbus
Birth Date: March 14, 1923
Death Date: July 26, 1971
Place of Birth: New York, New York, United States
Place of Death: New York, New York, United States
Nationality: American
Gender: Female
Occupations: photographer

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Biography of Diane Nemerov Arbus
1,334 words, approx. 4 pages
The American photographer Diane Nemerov Arbus (1923-1971) specialized in photographs of nontraditional subjects, including gays, the physically challenged, circus performers, and nudists. Diane Arbus was born Diane Nemerov on March 14, 1923. The...


Quotations
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Diane Arbus Quotes
129 words, approx. 1 pages
A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know. Everybody has that thing where they need to look one way but they come out looking another way and that's what people observe. You see someone on the street and...


Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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Arbus, Diane
454 words, approx. 2 pages
(born March 14, 1923, New York, New York, U.S.—died July 26, 1971, New York City) American photographer, best known for her compelling, often disturbing, portraits of people from the edges of society. Diane Nemerov was the daughter of Gertrude...
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Arbus, Diane
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(born March 14, 1923, New York, N.Y., U.S.—died July 26, 1971, New York City) U.S. photographer. The sister of the poet and critic Howard Nemerov, she worked as a fashion photographer in the 1950s. From about 1955 to 1957 she studied with...
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Diane Arbus Information
1,424 words, approx. 5 pages
Diane Arbus (March 14, 1923 – July 26, 1971) was an American photographer, noted for her portraits of people on the fringes of society, such as transvestites, dwarfs, giants, prostitutes, and ordinary citizens in poses and settings conveying a...


News and Journals
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The Village Voice
Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus
11/08/2006: 854 words, approx. 3 pages
Freak, Out Playing legendary photographer Diane Arbus, Nicole Kidman is an unconvincing weirdo Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus Directed by Steven Shainberg Picturehouse Opens November 10 BY J. HOBERMAN Do artists actually see more than...
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Artforum
"Diane Arbus: Revelations"
09/01/2003: 570 words, approx. 2 pages
"Diane Arbus: Revelations" SAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF MODERN ART What apples were to Cezanne, society's rejects were to Diane Arbus. For an oeuvre featuring identical New Jersey twins, a Jewish giant in the Bronx, pasty retired nudists, the "developmentally challenged," and trannies, what most...
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The New York Observer
Freakish Allusions to the Self: Arbus' Revelations at the Met
3/20/2005: 1,145 words, approx. 4 pages
The photographer Diane Arbus (1923-1971), on the evidence of Revelations, a retrospective at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, was incapable of taking a bad picture. Each and every photograph on display is, in its own way, riveting and, for that matter, definitive.Arbus' photos of drag...
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The New York Observer
Twin Spotting
9/11/2007: 661 words, approx. 2 pages
On Saturday, Sept. 8, one of the Olsen twins arrived at Gagosian Gallery in Chelsea to attend Warhol Factory X Levi’s’ spring runway show, which featured designs by the British artist Damien Hirst. While paparazzi crowded in on the diminutive, blond-haired gamine, fashionistas seated across...
 


 

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