Diane Arbus
American, 1923 - 1971
photographs of overlooked and marginalized people and views of mid-century American life. Born in New
York City in 1923, she began photographing in the 1940s shortly after marrying (and later divorcing) her
husband Allan at age 18. In 1960, she published her first photograph in Esquire and over the next decade
contributed photographs to major magazines including Harper's Weekly, Seventeen and many others.
She later taught at Parsons School of Design, Rhode Island School of Design, and Cooper Union. Arbus
was posthumously honored as the first American photographer to be shown at the Venice Biennale in
1972.
The artist died by suicide in 1971 and has since become a bit of a cult figure in photography and
American culture at large.
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