The Artspace Art for Life Interview with Adam Clayton
In her haunting black-and-white photographs, Diane Arbus captures the margins of society, from circus performers to transgendered individuals to identical twins, with many of her subjects displaying mental or physical disabilities. While she began her career as a commercial photographer and art director in the 1940s, working with her husband Allan to create images for fashion magazines and advertising campaigns, she soon turned her lens on less glamorous subjects, documenting the unknown, the grotesque, and the eccentric in controversial images that have alternately been considered compassionate portraits by her supporters, and nihilistic, exploitative ones by her detractors. In 1971, Arbus committed suicide at the age of 48. The year after her death, the Museum of Modern Art held a retrospective of her photographs, which became the most well-attended solo exhibition of a photographer in its history. Among the most famous photographers of the 20th century, her work has been exhibited in major museums and institutions worldwide. In 2006, Nicole Kidman portrayed the artist in Fur, a film based on her life.
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SHOWS
me Collectors Room
Berlin
Sep 26 2018 - Apr 01 2019
The Moment is Eternity – Works from the Olbricht Collection
Pace Gallery
London
Nov 25 2016 - Dec 17 2016
American Classics
Cheim & Read
New York
Jun 23 2016 - Sep 02 2016
THE FEMALE GAZE, PART TWO: WOMEN LOOK AT MEN
CLAMP
New York
Feb 18 2016 - Apr 02 2016
Headshots: Contemporary Photographic Portraiture
Whitney Museum of American Art
New York
Nov 20 2015 - Mar 06 2016
Collected by Thea Westreich Wagner and Ethan Wagner
