Diane Arbus (March 14, 1923 – July 26, 1971) was an American photographer and writer noted for photographs of "deviant and marginal people (dwarfs, giants, transgender people, nudists, circus performers) or of people whose normality seems ugly or surreal".
The Arbuses' interests in photography led them, in 1941, to visit the gallery of Alfred Stieglitz, and learn about the photographers Mathew Brady, Timothy O'Sullivan, Paul Strand, Bill Brandt, and Eugène Atget.
The first major exhibition of her photographs occurred at the Museum of Modern Art in an influential 1967 show called "New Documents", alongside the work of Garry Winogrand and Lee Friedlander, curated by John Szarkowski. Szarkowski presented what he described as "a new generation of documentary photographers", described elsewhere as "photography that emphasized the pathos and conflicts of modern life presented without editorializing or sentimentalizing but with a critical, observant eye.".
http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2010/jul/20/john-szarkowski-photography-moma The Guardian, Sean O'Hagan
20/07/10 (Date Accessed 19/03/15)
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