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 ...

Diane Arbus' "Sanctum Sanctorum" at San Francisco's Fraenkel Gallery reveals the intimacy and depth behind her iconic ...

“Diane Arbus’s Jewish Giant,” a new exhibit that opens this Friday at the Jewish Museum, explores the subject of one of Arbus’s most famous photographs, “A Jewish giant at home with his parents, in ...

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 ...

NEW YORK — Beginning in 1969 and continuing through the last two years of her life, Diane Arbus traveled regularly by bus to New Jersey to photograph people at residences for the developmentally and ...

Female impersonators, midgets, hermaphrodites, tattooed (all over) men, an albino sword swallower, a human pincushion, a Jewish giant: “Characters in a Fairy Tale for Grown Ups” is the way Diane Arbus ...

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 ...

In "Diane Arbus Revelations," which opens today at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the influential photographer's work unveils itself as a philosophical project, not merely a pictorial one.

THE DAILY PIC (#1632): This is a photo called Female impersonator holding long gloves, Hempstead, L.I. 1959, shot by Diane Arbus at the very beginning of her career as a serious art photographer, ...

If you can conjure a Diane Arbus photograph from memory, it might be the identical twin girls, the skinny boy clutching a toy hand grenade, the “Jewish giant”. But you are recalling the Arbus canon as ...

The photographer’s largely unseen set of 1960s photos focusing on outcasts of society is now on view at the Smithsonian In 1970, Diane Arbus was a struggling magazine photographer in New York City.

Arbus’s early works show a fully-formed photographer – from squalor to showbiz, she makes everyone exceptional Diane Arbus was everywhere in New York between 1956 and 1962. On the streets and in ...