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

— Diane Arbus

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

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American photographer and author 1923–1971

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