Detested falsehood and masks yet Diane herself sometimes had a bit of a doppelganger with her subjects and an ambiguity where genuine interest was balanced with exploitative seduction. Some of her subjects ended up regretting having fallen into the Arbusian web. The intimacy she achieved with some subjects is in some ways commendable yet a certain ethical shadow also persists. Germain Greer Germaine Greer noted feminist was photographed by Arbus about her experience as she noticed how the photographer would trigger the camera when she made a face or in some unflattering pose.
Greer About that same session William Todd Schultz recounts e-commerce photo editing that Arbus felt a sexual arousal with the provocations he launched against Greer and that the photographer used to use that feeling to intensify her artistic process. Arbus also realized that like her people liked to be seen and that The camera provided an undeniable attention that people felt it was due. At some point Diane used this exhibitionist weakness of her subjects to subtly encourage them to work for her voyeurism. Arbus clash of the titans But of all the criticisms of Diane Arbus perhaps none was as bitter as Susan Sontag.
Photographic reflection perhaps one of the most influential in history is On the Photography of this American intellectual who dedicates practically an entire chapter to bitterly criticizing the work and proceeding of Diane Arbus. Tattooed Man at a Carnival MD According to the writer Arbus's work is reactive it reacts against decorum against what is approved. It was his way of saying fuck Vogue fuck fashion fuck pretty. And she states lapidary Anyone photographed by Arbus is monstrous. For Sontag Arbus's photographs make the United States seem like a village of idiots. He accuses Diane and Robert Frank of inciting to believe that America is indeed the grave of the West.
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