Diane Arbus’ style of work

You can't get out of your own skin and enter someone else's body; someone else's tragedy can never become yours.

The Mystery of Life In history, the first photographer to be attacked as immoral was probably Diane Ahlers. As long as you glance at her photos, it is difficult to erase the feeling in your heart. Unspeakable unhappiness. The subjects she photographs are mostly the so-called deformed people in normal society - giants, imbeciles, disabled people, transgender people...·. The normal people photographed are also abnormal types - twins, triplets, celestial bodies - etc. No matter normal or abnormal people under her lens, there is an extremely abnormal tendency: the characters are ugly, the expressions are disgusting, the clothes are extremely vulgar, and the space is full of corruption. These photos have nothing to do with aesthetics.

When three of Alez's photos were first exhibited in a group exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York (1965), the administrator of the photography department had to wipe off the vomit on them early every morning. saliva. Almost all audiences at the time could not accept such a performance. Consider her work to be dirty, moral and extremely immoral. The characters photographed by Ales may have been encountered by everyone in their daily lives, but they are the sights they are least willing to take a second look at. However, she captures their facial expressions and psychological conditions, as if waiting to meet you face to face and talk about the tragic events caused by fate. What is the force that drives Aleth to devote herself so completely to the dark bottom of her soul? What kind of person is she? The book "Plunge Into A Dark World", which was just published in the United States last year, finally solved the mystery for us. This book is a biography of Alice by the female writer Patricia Bosworth. As soon as it was released, it was reviewed and highly recommended by Time magazine (TIME 1984.6, 4). It will become a book It was expected that this would be a best-seller. "Deformed people have a legendary quality, like a character in a mythical story, blocking you in front of you and forcing you to answer a riddle." Ales said at a lecture: "Most people are They have lived in fear of any traumatic experiences in the future, and deformed people are born with trauma. They have passed the test of life. They blame Ales for respecting deformed people as "nobles", which is correct. It is her own answer to the riddle of life, but each of her photos poses another riddle to normal people, and most people do not have the courage to answer it.