6/26/2023 0 Comments Doon arbus and marvin israel![]() The quality that defines her work and separates it from almost all other photography is her ability to empathize on a level far beyond language. She captured the complexity and the art in reality. What made her pictures great was everything that happened before she pressed the button."-Douglas Davis, "Newsweek," 1984 "Diane Arbus is one of our legends. That would be merely adjusting a lens and pressing a button. Diane Arbuss poignant black-and-white portrait photography captured life at the margins of American society. No one can go into the street tomorrow and take a Diane Arbus photograph. They are the product of something beyond the camera, the result of a long, complex and intensely human process. ![]() Her real subject is no less than the unique interior lives of those she photographed."-John Szarkowski, 1972, Director, Department of Photography, The Museum of Modern Art "I have never seen pictures like them before, and I am sure I will never see their equal again. Her pictures are concerned with private rather than social realities, with psychological rather than visual coherence, with the prototypical and mythic rather than the topical and temporal. She loved photography for the miracles it performs each day by accident, and respected it for the precise intentional tool that it could be, given talent, intelligence, dedication and discipline. ![]() Her concern was not to buttress philosophical positions but to make pictures. "Diane Arbus was not a theorist but an artist. ![]()
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