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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.
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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The more specific you are, the more general it'll be.
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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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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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If you scrutinize reality closely enough, if in some way you really, really get to it, it becomes fantastic.
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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 never have taken a picture I've intended. They're always better or worse.
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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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Nothing is ever the same as they said it was.
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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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These are characters in a fairy tale for grown-ups. Wouldn't it be lovely? Yes.
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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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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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Everything is so superb and breathtaking. I am creeping forward on my belly like they do in war movies.
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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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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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One of the risks of appearing in public is the likelihood of being photographed.
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