UNTITLED/ DIANE ARBUS

The photographs were taken at residences for the mentally retarded between 1966 and 1971, places she kept going back to every few mo nths or so, to picnics, dances, on Halloween, writes Arbus's daughter in the short afterword here. This is simply information. What is in the pictures lies closer to home. In fact, what is revealed on page after page hits almost too close to home. Best known for h er documentary yet wholly empathetic photographs of the human oddities from which polite society averts its gaze, Arbus reached the limits of ...[Read more]