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 ...

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 ...

For many of us, the late New York photographer Diane Arbus is an acquired taste — or even something of a guilty pleasure. Within the art world, she’s long been controversial. Outside the art world, ...

Right now, Berlin’s Gropius Bau is hosting the largest Diane Arbus exhibition ever held. Titled Diane Arbus: Konstellationen, it features 454 prints, many of them never displayed before, in a show ...

Image: 15 x 15 in. (38.1 x 38.1 cm.) Diane Arbus’s direct, confrontational framing invites close scrutiny while simultaneously denying full access to the subject’s identity. Arbus’s unembellished ...

Photographer Diane Arbus is known for her unconventional portraits, often of carnival performers, nudists, transvestites, or prostitutes. Somehow managing to be both comforting and unsettling, her ...

The estate of the photographer Diane Arbus has given her complete archives — including the often-disturbing portraits of carnival performers, twins, and dwarfs that earned her a cult following — to ...

Signed, titled, dated, numbered 8/75 by Doon Arbus, Executor, in ink, and estate copyright credit stamp on the verso We will bid on your behalf up to the reserve or against competing bidders, and will ...

Kader Attia, b 1970, is a highly political French artist of Algerian background. He speaks in videos directly to the viewer, on a variety of topics exploring colonialism, influences and relationships ...

In 1972, Diane Arbus became the first photographer to have her work exhibited at the Venice Biennale. These pivotal works will be featured in the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s exhibition, Diane ...