Elementary Graduation Welcome Address

Diane Arbus - a contemporary look

Diane Arbus (NY, 1923-1971) remains significant. He looked at the fact that the photographer made it clear is primarily an interpreter and that reality is not an indisputable fact. His firm settled way of seeing the need to communicate identities and close with a strong political and critical, created a body of photographs that do not opt \u200b\u200bfor the truth but rather through the territory of the revelations and searches.

images that fill us with more questions than answers. (LIC)

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"Nothing ever is the same as saying it was.
only recognize what I've never seen"

transvestite in his birthday party, NY, 1969

Mexican dwarf in his hotel room in New York, 1970

man sitting with bra and stockings, NYC, 1967

"I think if scrutinize the reality of a very close, if somehow, we really approached it, it becomes fantastic. It really is totally fantastic to see you well and it shows very clearly in a photograph. There's something ironic in the world and has to do with the fact that what you intend never comes out the way they tried to "

young patriot with a flag, NYC, 1967

child with a toy grenade in Central Park, NYC, 1962

"I remember long ago when I started shooting I thought there were many people horrible in the world and it would be terribly hard to photograph them all so if photographing some kind of general human being, everyone would recognize. Something like what they call the common man or something. It was Lisette Model, my teacher, I finally said that the more specific you are, the more general will "

young man and his pregnant wife in the Park "Washington Square" NYC
, 1965

"Some photos are tentative forays without your knowing it. They become methods. It is important to make bad photos, serve to one recognizes what is different and what has not been done before. I do recognize something you have not seen in a way that you will recognize when you see it again "

identical twins, Roselle, NJ, 1967

"The Chinese say that one goes from boredom to fascination easily and I think that's true. I have never chosen a subject for what it means for me or what I think of him. One has only to choose a subject, which it believes will only work if enough "

young man with curlers in her home on the street" West 20th, NYC, 1966

"One thing I encountered at the outset is that one does not put in a picture that's out or vice versa, what comes out is what goes down. I've never taken a picture I wanted to do, always better or worse "

Texts and captions taken from: Diane Arbus: An Aperture Monograph