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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.
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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If you scrutinize reality closely enough, if in some way you really, really get to it, it becomes fantastic.
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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'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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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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One of the risks of appearing in public is the likelihood of being photographed.
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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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I think the most beautiful inventions are the ones you don't think of.
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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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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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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. It's what I've never seen before that I recognize.
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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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The camera is a kind of license.
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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.
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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 mean, if you've ever spoken to someone with two heads, you know they know something you don't.
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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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