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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.
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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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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The condition of photographing is maybe the condition of being on the brink of conversion to anything.
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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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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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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 really believe there are things nobody would see if I didn't photograph them.
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Take pictures of what you fear.
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You see someone on the street, and essentially what you notice about them is the flaw.
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I never have taken a picture I've intended. They're always better or worse.
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One thing I would never photograph is a dog lying in the mud.
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The camera is a kind of license.
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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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If you scrutinize reality closely enough, if in some way you really, really get to it, it becomes fantastic.
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For me, the subject of the picture is always more important than the picture.
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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 cruel, so I try to be as good as I can to make things even.
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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 think it does, a little, hurt to be photographed.
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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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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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