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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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Photography was a license to go wherever I wanted and to do what I wanted to do.
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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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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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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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I'm very little drawn to photographing people that are known or even subjects that are known. They fascinate me when I've barely heard of them.
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If I didn't have a camera, the things I do would be crazy.
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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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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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The thing that's important to know is that you never know. You're always sort of feeling your way.
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One thing I would never photograph is a dog lying in the mud.
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I really believe there are things nobody would see if I didn't photograph them.
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Nothing is ever the same as they said it was.
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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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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 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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Everything is so superb and breathtaking. I am creeping forward on my belly like they do in war movies.
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I think it does, a little, hurt to be photographed.
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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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I mean, if you've ever spoken to someone with two heads, you know they know something you don't.
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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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