Diane Arbus

✶March 14, 1923

†July 26, 1971

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About their life

Diane Arbus was an American photographer. She photographed a wide range of subjects including strippers, carnival performers, nudists, people with dwarfism, children, mothers, couples, elderly people, and middle-class families. She photographed her subjects in familiar settings: their homes, on the street, in the workplace, in the park. "She is noted for expanding notions of acceptable subject matter and violates canons of the appropriate distance between photographer and subject. By befriending, not objectifying her subjects, she was able to capture in her work a rare psychological intensity."

American photographer (1923–1971)

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Biography from the article Diane Arbus on the English Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.