Diane Arbus citations

Diane Arbus, née Diane Nemerov , est une photographe de rue américaine.

Elle est restée célèbre pour ses portraits de rue effectués au reflex 6x6 à deux objectifs équipé d'une torche à lampes flash au magnésium de forte puissance, sa photographie des Jumelles identiques et celle de l'Enfant à la grenade dans Central Park.

Elle a aussi réalisé un projet sur une communauté de handicapés mentaux.

✵ 14. mars 1923 – 26. juillet 1971
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Diane Arbus: Citations en anglais

“My favorite thing is to go where I've never been.”

Source: Arbus, Diane, Diane Arbus: An Aperture Monograph, 1972, Aperture, New York, 978-0912334400, https://archive.org/details/dianearbus00arbu] source: Arbus, Diane. Diane Arbus. Millerton, New York: Aperture, 1972. ISBN 0-912334-40-1. source: DeCarlo, Tessa (May 2004).

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/a-fresh-look-at-diane-arbus-99861134/ "A Fresh Look at Diane Arbus". Smithsonian magazine. Retrieved December 13, 2017.

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,910470,00.html "Art: to Hades with Lens". Time, November 13, 1972. Retrieved February 12, 2010.

“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. 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.”

Schjeldahl, Peter. "Looking Back: Diane Arbus at the Met" http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2005/03/21/050321craw_artworld?currentPage=all, The New Yorker, March 21, 2005. Retrieved February 4, 2010. source: Sass, Louis A. "'Hyped on Clarity': Diane Arbus and the Postmodern Condition". Raritan, volume 25, number 1, pp. 1–37, Summer 2005.


Source: Kimmelman, Michael, The Profound Vision of Diane Arbus: Flaws in Beauty, Beauty in Flaws, https://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/11/arts/design/the-profound-vision-of-diane-arbus-flaws-in-beauty-beauty-in.html, 1 November 2018, The New York Times, 11 March 2005

“Love involves a peculiar unfathomable combination of understanding and misunderstanding”

Variante: Love involves a peculiar unfathomable combination of understanding and misunderstanding.

“Nothing is ever the same as they said it was. It's what I've never seen before that I recognize.”

Source: Arbus, Diane, Five Photographs by Diane Arbus, Artforum, May 1971, 9, 9, https://www.artforum.com/print/197105, 13 November 2018

“A picture is a secret about a secret, the more it tells you the less you know.”

Source: Estrin, James, Diane Arbus, 1923-1971, https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/obituaries/overlooked-diane-arbus.html, 6 November 2018, The New York Times, 8 March 2018]


Diane Arbus: Revelations. New York: Random House, 2003. ISBN 0-375-50620-9.


Ault, Alicia, A Window into the World of Diane Arbus: Photographs from the portfolio, "A box of 10," reveal photographer's secrets, https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/window-world-diane-arbus-180968861/, 13 November 2018, Smithsonian, 24 April 2018

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