Re: [Leica] OT - Diane Arbus

[Bob Adler <rgacpa@pacbell.net>]

Thanks for the impression, Oliver. I plan to go soon
but was waiting for the initial crowds to die down.
How long will the exhibit run?
Bob

- --- Oliver Bryk <oliverbryk@comcast.net> wrote:
> 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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