Fraenkel gallery diane arbus biography
Fraenkel gallery diane arbus biography
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“Diane Arbus seems to have been connected to her subjects by a magnetic bond that somehow survived the mechanical rigors of the photographic process. This bond is the source of her formidable power, and it is evident in almost all her pictures.
The intimacy it creates disturbs us most when the subject is one from which we would, in life, avert our eyes…”
Owen Edwards, American Photographer
Diane Arbus is unquestionably one of the most influential photographers of her generation.
Nineteen close-up studies of faces by Diane Arbus will be on view at Fraenkel Gallery, 55 Grant Avenue from March 1 through April 8.
Photographs in the exhibition range from through including several rarely seen images such as Girl in a watch cap, New York City, and a portrait of Mae West, in her bedroom.
Throughout her career, Arbus often brought her camera perilously close to the faces of her subjects.
In the finished prints, the faces frequently filled the frame, making them larger than life a