Diane Arbus Post 3

Diane Arbus captured moments and people who at the time were freaks or outcast. She liked making you feel uncomfortable when looking at her images. She wanted to make you think about reality and not what everyone else thinks or wants you to think. She mentions "what you intend never comes out how you intended it" meaning it's impossible for you to get out of your own skin and into someone else's.

By: Diane Arbus

She didn't like photography the "norm" what everyone else was doing at her time. She wanted to photograph things that are completely different. She shot people who had already gone through a traumatic experiences in there life and are who they are. Versus the "normal" people wo have yet to go through something so traumatic. 

                                                         Shot by: Diane Arbus

The images that she shot during her era made people feel uncomfortable verse happy and warm like other pictures did then. They had a since of sadness and confusion. People back then couldn't wrap their heads around cross dressers and midgets and whatever else made you different in society then. Diane saw something else that she had to capture. She saw their lives, how they lived, who they loved, how they acted in society. She saw them as normal people.


























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