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“For me the subject of the picture is always more important than the picture.

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And more complicated.”

–– Diane Arbus, c. 1971

Diane Arbus’s photographs captured wide-ranging subjects, from children to circus performers to nudists, throughout a career that bridged the eras of magazine photography and art photography. 

Arbus started taking photographs in the 1940s.

In 1941, she married Allan Arbus, and, following World War II, the pair jointly opened a commercial photography studio, working for periodicals like Glamour and Vogue with Diane styling and Allan taking all the photographs.

Arbus ended this partnership in 1956 and began to focus on her own work full-time.

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In 1956 and 1957, she participated in workshops led by photographer Lisette Model, and these crucially clarified her singular path forward. Around this time, Arbus’s black-and-white images often featured everyday street scenes, like Couple eating, N.Y.C.

1956 (1956, SAAM), but she also began con