Diane Arbus
To Diane Arbus, Every Portrait Was A Self Portrait
Arbus’s work is so compelling because she is completely captured by what she captures.
Diane Arbus
The late photographer Diane Arbus was the subject of a new exhibit at the Met Breuer as well as a new biography.
For Diane Arbus, Photography Was Like Sexual Conquest
A new biography of Diane Arbus describes the photographer as idiosyncratic, troubled, needy and sexually compulsive. Julie M. Klein addresses the many seductions alluded to by author Arthur Lubow.
When Diane Arbus Met a Giant in Her Field
Both Diane Arbus and Eddie Carmel, the ‘Jewish giant’ she photographed, can be seen as metaphors for assimilation. The Jewish Museum’s new exhibit explores the curious parallels.
Galleries Offer a Jew's Who of the Contemporary Art World
If there’s one lesson to be drawn from the ‘Jew York’ exhibition of nearly 90 artists, it may be that humor is crucial to Jewish identity. But perhaps there’s no lesson at all.
Talented Life of Diane Arbus Reconsidered
Diane Arbus’s disturbing and spectacular gallery of photographs were of a piece with the rest of her disorderly life that ended in suicide, William Todd Schultz writes in a new book.
'Sensory Overload' in America
For anyone who has embarked on a road trip across America, camera in hand, the images collected in “America By Car,” an exhibition of Lee Friedlander’s photography on now through November 28 at the Whitney Museum of American Art, will seem familiar.