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The thing that's important to know is that you never know. You're always sort of feeling your way.
Diane Arbus
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Diane Arbus
Age: 48 †
Born: 1923
Born: March 14
Died: 1971
Died: July 26
Fashion Photographer
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New York City
New York
Diane Nemerov
Diane Nemerov Arbus
Diane née Nemerov
Diane nee Nemerov
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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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Photography was a license to go wherever I wanted and to do what I wanted to do.
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Nothing is ever the same as they said it was. It's what I've never seen before that I recognize.
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If I didn't have a camera, the things I do would be crazy.
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One thing I would never photograph is a dog lying in the mud.
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I don't know what good composition is.... Sometimes for me composition has to do with a certain brightness or a certain coming to restness and other times it has to do with funny mistakes. There's a kind of rightness and wrongness and sometimes I like rightness and sometimes I like wrongness.
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It's important to take bad pictures. It's the bad ones that have to do with what you've never done before. They can make you recognize something you hadn't seen in a way that will make you recognize it when you see it again.
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Everything is so superb and breathtaking. I am creeping forward on my belly like they do in war movies.
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These are characters in a fairy tale for grown-ups. Wouldn't it be lovely? Yes.
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The camera is cruel, so I try to be as good as I can to make things even.
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Lately I've been struck with how I really love what you can't see in a photograph. An actual physical darkness. And it's very thrilling for me to see darkness again.
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Take pictures of what you fear.
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