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Article: Diane Arbus': revelations of life: her "gift for rendering strange those things we consider most familiar continues to challenge our assumptions about the nature of everyday life and compels us to look at the world in a new way.".(Focus on America; "Diane Arbus: Revelations" exhibition)
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- USA TODAY
- Article date:
- January 1, 2004
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DIANE ARBUS found most of her subjects in New York City, a place that she explored as both a known geography and foreign land. She primarily was a photographer of people she discovered in the metropolis and its environs during the 1950s and 1960s. Her contemporary anthropology--portraits of couples, children, carnival performers, nudists, middleclass families, transvestites, people on the street, zealots, eccentrics, and celebrities-stands as an allegory of postwar America, an exploration of the relationship between appearance and identity, illusion and belief, theater and reality. Many of her best known images--identical twins in New Jersey, a "Jewish giant" slouching to ...
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... ... 2003. Until recently New York photographer Diane Arbus (1923-1971) was ... MoMA, and will be in New York at the Metropolitan ... of 2005)--and Diane Arbus: Family Albums ... 2003)--a show at New York University's Grey ...
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