Diane Arbus Among the many, many images I came across during my search, I found Arbus’s portraits to provoke the most emotion and intrigue. There was not one in particular that struck a chord with me, rather the overall brilliance in each photo and, person, and artistic opportunity. She told a story through her photographs, of lives and culture. I enjoyed the wide variety of subjects as well as the ways she chose to …showed first 75 words of 519 total…

…showed last 75 words of 519 total…the following year Arbus became the first American photographer to be represented at the Venice Biennale. Over 7.25 million people viewed a major retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, in 1972, which traveled throughout the U.S. and Canada. The next year, a Japanese retrospective traveled through Western Europe and the Western Pacific. “She created her photographs out of who she was.” (Joel Meyerowitz in an interview in Bystander: A History Of Street Photography.)