Monday, 06 July 2009

• Diane Arbus

      "Diane Arbus was a New York photographer known for her black and white portraits of eccentrics, carnival performers. The daughter of well-to-do fur merchants, she married her teenage sweetheart, Allan Arbus, soon after she turned 18. Together they had a fashion photography business for more than a decade, but in 1959 they ended their partnership and marriage and Diane began studying fine art photography. In the 1960s she worked as a photojournalist, received two Guggenheim fellowships (1963 and 1966) and received critical praise for her vaguely disturbing portraits of society's fringe members. After her 1971 suicide, a national touring exhibit by the Museum of Modern Art and a book of her photographs by Aperture magazine made her one of the most famous fine art photographers in the U.S.                                                                             ~From Answers.com

                                       

                            

     I first learned about Diane Arbus when I watch a fictional movie about her in 2006 (Diane Arbus was a real person but the movie I watched was Fictional). I got so intrested in her that I did alot of research on the internet and in my local libray. When I saw the photos she took, I wanted to be a photographer right then and there. Her photos aren't like any other, her photo are consider unnormal, wong, and werid yet they are striking. Photography is something I do but I don't share it because it's a personal hobby of mine. But I'm so glad I watched the movie and found out about Diane Arbus because she is now my inspiration to take my photography skills to a new level.

             Some of her photos:

  

     I like the women laying in bed photo the most. To me the pictues says" Let me enjoy my pleasure", lol I know it's kinda corny but that's whats comes to mind when I see that photo. I think she took these pictues in the 1960's and I have always favor black and white pictues over ones in color. I think black and white makes the photo seem like it has a deeper story and way more emotions.

            Her two most famous photos that I'm sure everyone has seen:

  

     She really is one of the best photographer I ever seen. I wish I could've met her, I have tons of questions I love to ask her.

                      My next entry will be about the fictional movie about her.

            Maya 

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