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Article: "Diane Arbus: Revelations".(Preview Fall 2003)(San Francisco Museum of Modern Art)(photography retrospective)
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- Artforum International
- Article date:
- September 1, 2003
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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 astonishes is that it never seems to exploit its often creepy subjects. The new retrospective of the photographs of Diane Arbus (1923-71) is the first since the Museum of Modern Art's posthumous full-career survey in 1972. Organized by Elisabeth Sussman (who brought the show to the West Coast after she left the Whitney Museum of American Art in 1998) and Sandra Phillips, SF MOMA'S senior curator of ...
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