We absolutely have to talk about Diane Arbus. She is one of the most difficult photographers of all time, and one of the most hotly debated. At the time Arbus was alive—1923 to 1971—photography was ...

It’s another summer of Diane Arbus. The famed photographer, who was only 48 when she took her own life in 1971, has never been out of fashion in the art world. Her influence radiates through the work ...

Opportunities for sensationalism abound in a book about Arbus, who already had a history of severe depressions and a crumbling marriage by the time she began to take the controversial, technically ...

According to the credits Fur is “inspired” by Patricia Bosworth’s sober, well-researched and touching 1984 biography of Diane Arbus, the photographer who specialized in making indelible images of the ...

Diane Arbus’ work was included in only a handful of museum exhibitions before she died, by her own hand, at the age of 48 in 1971. Nevertheless, she had already gained renown with a series of ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. photographer Diane Arbus has been both lionized and lambasted since her suicide in 1971 for her photographs of dwarfs, nudists, prostitutes and others on society's fringes.

Diane Arbus was an American photographer noted for photographs of marginalized people—dwarfs, giants, transgender people, nudists, circus performers—and others whose normality was perceived by the ...

Diane Arbus’s portfolio “A Box of Ten Photographs” was pivotal in the acceptance of photography by the art world. A book published by Aperture and the Smithsonian American Art Museum examines the ...