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For me, the subject of the picture is always more important than the picture.
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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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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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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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 you scrutinize reality closely enough, if in some way you really, really get to it, it becomes fantastic.
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The more specific you are, the more general it'll be.
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One thing that struck me early is that you don’t put into a photograph what’s going to come out. Or, vice versa, what comes out is not what you put in.
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Most people go through life dreading they'll have a traumatic experience. Freaks were born with their trauma. They've already passed their test in life. They're aristocrats.
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It would be beautiful to photograph the winners of everything from Nobel to booby prize, clutching trophy, or money or certificate, solemn or smiling or tear stained or bloody, on the precarious pinnacle of the human landscape.
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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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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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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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One of the risks of appearing in public is the likelihood of being photographed.
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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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Take pictures of what you fear.
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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 a kind of license.
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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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Regardless of how you feel inside, always try to look like a winner. Even if you are behind, a sustained look of control and confidence can give you a mental edge that results in victory.
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A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know.
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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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