Diane Arbus was a daughter of privilege who spent much of her adult life documenting those on the periphery of society. Since she killed herself in 1971, her unblinking portraits have made her a ...

Diane Arbus had a way of stopping time. And the oeuvre of the American photographer, who died by suicide in 1971 at the age of 48, has a way of stopping people in their tracks. “She really does make ...

The myth of American photographer Diane Arbus (1923-71) is remarkably durable. Mention her name and a familiar shorthand materializes. The documenter of "freaks", of outsiders, of those on the very ...

A 1972 retrospective of Diane Arbus’s work, mounted at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) just one year after she took her own life, divided viewers the way few exhibitions ever have. New York Times ...

It’s another summer of Diane Arbus. The famed photographer, who was only 48 when she took her own life in 1971, has never been out of fashion in the art world. Her influence radiates through the work ...

In celebration of Artnet’s Important Photographs sale, we asked three of our specialists to tell us about three groundbreaking female photographers—Diane Arbus, Lisette Model, and Cindy Sherman—and ...

Pros: *Arbus is far more relevant to the contemporary state of photography than, say, Edward Weston, whom the museum recently showed. Photographers who are drawn to the grotesque and offbeat, such as ...

If you think you are capable of living without writing,” said the German poet Rainer Maria Rilke, “do not write.” He didn’t live to meet Diane Arbus, but if he had seen her photographs he would have ...

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A projection outside Diane Arbus: Constellation at Park Avenue Armory in New York. I was not allowed to take my own photos of the show. (photo Hakim Bishara/Hyperallergic) The era of Diane Arbus’s ...

Diane Arbus’s portfolio “A Box of Ten Photographs” was pivotal in the acceptance of photography by the art world. A book published by Aperture and the Smithsonian American Art Museum examines the ...