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A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know.
Diane Arbus
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Diane Arbus
Age: 48 †
Born: 1923
Born: March 14
Died: 1971
Died: July 26
Fashion Photographer
Photographer
New York City
New York
Diane Nemerov
Diane Nemerov Arbus
Diane née Nemerov
Diane nee Nemerov
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If you scrutinize reality closely enough, if in some way you really, really get to it, it becomes fantastic.
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Everybody has that thing where they need to look one way but they come out looking another way and that's what people observe.
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You see someone on the street, and essentially what you notice about them is the flaw.
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Photography was a license to go wherever I wanted and to do what I wanted to do.
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There's a quality of legend about freaks. Like a person in a fairy tale who stops you and demands that you answer a riddle.
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I mean, if you've ever spoken to someone with two heads, you know they know something you don't.
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I really believe there are things nobody would see if I didn't photograph them.
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If I didn't have a camera, the things I do would be crazy.
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We've all got an identity. You can't avoid it. It's what's left when you take everything else away.
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...I would never choose a subject for what it means to me. I choose a subject and then what I feel about it, what it means, begins to unfold.
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The more specific you are, the more general it'll be.
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I think it does, a little, hurt to be photographed.
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I work from awkwardness. By that I mean I don't like to arrange things. If I stand in front of something, instead of arranging it, I arrange myself.
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The thing that's important to know is that you never know. You're always sort of feeling your way.
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Freaks was a thing I photographed a lot. It was one of the first things I photographed and it had a terrific kind of excitement for me. I just used to adore them. I still do adore some of them. I don't quite mean they're my best friends but they made me feel a mixture of shame and awe.
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There's a kind of power thing about the camera. I mean everyone knows you've got some edge. You're carrying some magic which does something to them. It fixes them in a way.
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