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Diana Abbas is one of the important figures in contemporary documentary photography and one of the most controversial figures in photography. 197 1 year, she committed suicide. Today, more than 30 years later, a landmark museum exhibition and the first disclosure of some of her private works have drawn people's attention to this controversial female photographer again.

The most controversial female photographer

This exhibition is organized by the Museum of Modern Art in San Francisco, USA. The theme of the exhibition is "liberation". Diana Abbas wrote many rich works before she committed suicide. She shoots those who live on the edge of society in a direct and cruel way, and also shoots those so-called "normal" people, sharply exposing the cracks they left on the public mask. These creations were not only controversial at that time, but still so today.

"Giving Diana Abbas a camera is like giving a baby a Grenade," norman mailer said. This metaphor may be ironic, but it does not deviate from the factual basis. A camera is like Diana Abbas's key. With such a key around her neck, she can open any door. She is one of the most outstanding photographers in this century, and her works have expanded people's understanding of human nature and photography. 1984 The biography of Diana Abbas written by Bosworth ended with this sentence: "Her camera is the window to torture the soul".

She focuses on "weird" roles.

Diana was born in a wealthy family in new york. Her father runs a popular department store on Fifth Avenue. She was educated in a moral and cultural school.

/kloc-When she was 0/8 years old, she married Allen Abbas and became interested in photography. Later, her father asked Diana and her husband to do advertising photography for his department store. From then on, the two of them worked as photographers together.

During 1955 ~ 1957, Diana Abbas studied under Mundell. Mundell encouraged her to focus on portraits, and then developed what Mundell thought was a unique and clear documentary eye. Soon after studying with Mundell, Diana began to devote herself to documentary films, shooting transvestites, twins, dwarfs, people in the street and at home, and patients living in mental hospitals.

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