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’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 ...

"Do you remember your first Diane Arbus photograph?" The question posed by gallerist Jeffrey Fraenkel provoked murmurs among the opening-night crowd at "Diane Arbus: Sanctum Sanctorum" on Friday, ...

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.

It is reductive and tiresome to write about Diane Arbus and immediately bring up her death. It also seems almost impossible not to, for a couple of reasons. First off, she ended her life at 48, as her ...

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, ...