Diane Arbus's personal data

Photos are secrets about secrets. The more it tells you, the less you know. Photos are secrets about secrets. The more it reveals, the less you know.

-Diane Arbus (1923- 197 1)

197165438+1On October 26th, 48-year-old Diane Arbus swallowed a handful of barbiturate hydrochloric acid at home, dressed neatly, climbed into the bathtub and cut her wrist with a knife. The last sentence she left in her diary was "Last Supper". No one knows what she means. Some people call her "the Vincent Van Gogh of photography". Diane Arbus is the most important standard-bearer of American new documentary photography. Her photographic exploration, which takes the poor, deformed, homeless, transgender, homosexual, nudist and mentally retarded patients as the background of herself (normal) and society (mainstream), stubbornly forces us to re-examine "normal" and "abnormal", "moral" and "immoral". Her photo exhibition toured all over the world with 7.25 million visitors. She is the first photographer in the United States to participate in the Venice Art Biennale.

Albus grew up in a very rich American Jewish family, and was brought up with his brother and sister by their respective nannies. He is a spoiled greenhouse flower. However, this meticulous protection gave her considerable pressure. From the age of 35, she turned to the study of the so-called marginal people, trying to express the rebellious tendency, insanity and disillusionment of Americans in the 1960 s and 1970 s, and made a profound visual exploration of the duality of mainstream figures and marginal people.