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Article: Revisiting the icons: the intimate photography of Diane Arbus.(Diane Arbus: Revelations)(Book Review)
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- Harper's Magazine
- Article date:
- November 1, 2003
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Diane Arbus: Revelations. Random House, 2003. 336 pages. $100.
Among the ominous hallucinations that terrify the little boy who tricycles manically through the deserted hotel in Stanley Kubrick's The Shining is a pair of female twins whose appearance, posture, and affect is a quotation from, or an homage to, Diane Arbus's photograph "Identical Twins, Roselle, N.J. 1967." The little girls in the film are harbingers of the hotel's gory past and the boy's violent future, and the vision of Kubrick's eerie sisters, superimposed upon our own memory of Arbus's portrait, not only telegraphs its sinister import with the eloquent concision ...