Diane Arbus
Diane Arbus was born in New York City in 1923, an artistic youth She learnt photography from her husband actor Allan Arbus. Together they found success with fashion work, but shortly after Diane branched out on her own. Her raw unusual images of the people living in New York created a unique and interesting portrayal of the city.
working with her husband, Diane Arbus started out in advertising and fashion photography. her and Allan became quite a successful team with photographs appearing in such magazines as vogue. in the late 1950's she began to focus on her own photography. to further her art, Arbus studied with photographer Lisette Model around this time.
During her wanderings around New York City Arbus began to pursue taking photographs of people she found she visited seedy hotels and public parks, morgues and other various locales, these unusual images had a raw quality and several of them fond their way into the July 1960 issue of Esquire magazine. These photographs proved to be a spring board for future work.
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