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The camera is cruel, so I try to be as good as I can to make things even.
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
Photographer
Cameras
Even
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Camera
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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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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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Take pictures of what you fear.
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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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The condition of photographing is maybe the condition of being on the brink of conversion to anything.
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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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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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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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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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The more specific you are, the more general it'll 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 mean, if you've ever spoken to someone with two heads, you know they know something you don't.
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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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The thing that's important to know is that you never know. You're always sort of feeling your way.
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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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You see someone on the street, and essentially what you notice about them is the flaw.
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The camera is a kind of license.
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I really believe there are things nobody would see if I didn't photograph them.
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