[Leica] OT - Diane Arbus

["Oliver Bryk" <oliverbryk@comcast.net>]

A few days ago I visited the Diane Arbus exhibit that recently opened at the
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. In addition to a large, representative
body of Arbus's work the exhibit includes excerpts from her diaries (which
are also on display); documents and pictures that illustrate her biography;
and her Nikon SLR, Mamiya TLR, and Rolleiflex wide angle TLR cameras. To see
the entire spectrum of her work gave me a a very different impression of
Arbus's range of subjects than one might get from the more frequently
reproduced photographs of physically or socially less favored people. I was
impressed by her determination to succeed as a photographer who wanted to
communicate in her own way what she saw. There is so much material that I
plan to return.
Oliver Bryk


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