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The condition of photographing is maybe the condition of being on the brink of conversion to anything.
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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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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Everything is so superb and breathtaking. I am creeping forward on my belly like they do in war movies.
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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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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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We stand on a precipice, then before a chasm, and as we wait it becomes higher, wider, deeper, but I am crazy enough to think it doesn't matter which way we leap because when we leap we will have learned to fly. Is that blasphemy or faith?
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I never have taken a picture I've intended. They're always better or worse.
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If I didn't have a camera, the things I do would be crazy.
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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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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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A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know.
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I always thought of photography as a naughty thing to do - that was one of my favorite things about it, and when I first did it, I felt very perverse.
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You see someone on the street, and essentially what you notice about them is the flaw.
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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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Photography was a license to go wherever I wanted and to do what I wanted to do.
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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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If you scrutinize reality closely enough, if in some way you really, really get to it, it becomes fantastic.
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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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There are an awful lot of people in the world and it's going to be terribly hard to photograph all of them... It was my teacher Lisette Model who finally made it clear to me that the more specific you are, the more general it will be.
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