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Arbus’s cross-dressers and nudists, her people with Down syndrome and Halloween celebrants, no longer look like “freaks.” They look like what they are: fellow human beings.
American, 1923–1971. Unlike most people, who “go through life dreading they’ll have a traumatic experience,” the “freaks” that interested Diane Arbus “were born with their trauma. They’ve already passed their test in life.
Diane had a talent for friendship, and she maintained long-term connections with all sorts of people — eccentrics in rooming houses, freaks in sideshows, socialites on Park Avenue. She needed...
“Freaks” Arbus herself called them, and Lubow frequently repeats the term. The nervous-making frisson these photographs set off when they first began to appear in 1960 can still be felt.
In keeping with the New Sensibility, Arbus wanted experience, delighted in edging closer to the mad, to the mentally incapacitated, to the freaks who comported themselves with a strange yet affecting dignity, to the hope of sexual liberation, to the blurry boundaries of gender.
The revolutionary photographer Diane Arbus, who died in 1971, at the age of forty-eight, said, “A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know.”.
The complex, ambitious, taboo-smashing artist was famous for her photographs of so-called "freaks." Now, "psychobiographer" William Todd Schultz examines the woman behind the lens.
