Photographer Diana Arbus: biography and works

History, as is known, is done by people, and photographers are photographed. Gloss, glamor, creative delights are typical for a true master, who is looking for his ways in photography. Diane Arbus - one of the most famous personalities, is popular in its stay throughout the world. The work of an American of Russian-Jewish descent who has gone to another world in the halo of his fame is still disputed and is the subject of discussions in the best secular and western cultural institutions.

Who is D. Arbus

A mystery woman for many generations did not part with her camera for almost a minute. She was interested in the surrounding world, people living in it, their feelings, actions and thoughts, she passed in her photographs. The works of Diane Arbus talk about unusual people belonging to different subcultures.

The mastery of a woman has reached perfection, has acquired her exquisite style and completely rejected glamor, the lacquered gloss of the United States after the war. Many are delighted by the independent and strong Diane Arbus. The biography of the photographer is full of various events, happy and tragic.

Birth

A future photo-art star appeared in a simple Jewish family in 1923. Nemerovs were emigrants from cold Russia, among many other people who fled the country. His permanent home was found in the New York quarter, where Diana's grandfather, who had previously arrived with a Russian lover, already lived, contrary to the wishes of his relatives.

Parents have never been miserable. In the States they opened their own business and became owners of a store selling furs. The economy and business management occupied the free time of parents, who did not have to stay on the upbringing and education of their children. Therefore, the girl, brother and sister were brought up by governesses. Parents were troubled and found nannies for children. Diana Arbus from childhood had a special way of thinking and a creative look at the world around her.

Growing up and first love

From an early age, the girl was notable for her disobedience and disobedience to the foundations of her views. After graduating from the school of ethical culture, she entered the Fieldston School, where she began to interest in art. Diana Arbus looked at people in a special way. The personal life of a famous photographer was always interested in fans.

Children's love overtook the girl at the age of 13, and she immediately hurried to inform her parents that she was marrying a student of the acting faculty of Alan Arbus. The prospect of the daughter's marriage did not make her father and mother happy, and they decided on her departure to Cummington school. But all in vain, contrary to the parental will, Diana in 1941 became a wife and took her husband's surname.

The unsuccessful young actor was forced to abandon his cherished career and get a job to feed his young family. His post was far from art, he began to trade in neighboring shops.

Joint passion

Two years later, the young man decided to study photo art and took a job in the army service courses. Began to attach his beloved to work, giving her a camera.

After a while, the pair took possession of the studio of fashion photographs "Allan and Diana Arbus" in the capital. Young people shared their professional obligations. The man engaged in the technical processing of photographs, the manifestation of pictures, printing.

The girl completely plunged into the life of art photo art. So she began to manage the studio. Successful solidarity work began to cause controversy. Each of them shared his point of view and defended it. Alan believed that the basis of the work should be the trend of fashionable at that time photographs, their chromaticity, foreshortening, rigid illumination. Diane Arbus, whose photo was recognized as real and alive, began to search for interesting ideas filled with various content.

The gap that affected the work of Arbus Diana

A few months later, the routine and the gray monotonous life of the studio became boring for the young woman. Advertising fashion trends and other directions did not interest her. In the 60's, the husband and wife decided to close their offspring. After two years they parted forever.

For Diana, months have rushed to find your place in the field of photographs. After meeting Lisette Model, they began to get involved in a new direction together. The turn of creative destiny was outlined in the life of the future master. It was at that time that Diana Arbus found her style in art, which still excites the feelings of many generations.

She wandered through the streets of the night city, looked at the daily routine of people in their professional activities, watched the children running through puddles feeding pigeons. The life of ordinary Americans was interested in the master. So in her creative life included prostitutes, transvestites, freaks with anomalies of their development, nudists.

Diana did not like to build characters like other photographers did. She took pictures of them in everyday poses, did not ask to pose. Therefore, in the photo everything looks natural and simple. Pompasity can not be found in any of the works. The true world was trying to show Diane Arbus. Photos of her works can now be seen in many galleries of the world.

Preparing an angle, plot, background and arrangement of objects - everything was annoying and was against its nature. She called the freaks "aristocrats", because they passed the life test at their birth and growing up. Art critics quickly noticed the rising star. Someone admired her creativity, someone rejected at all. But there were no indifferent spectators.

Fame around the world

In the 60's, the works were presented in the halls of the New York Museum of Modern Art. Photos began to appear in the prestigious magazines of that decade. Recognition as the best known master of photographs came to Diana once and for all.

But, like many creative people, Arbus began to visit the idea of suicide on the creative Olympus. She decides to take a large dose of barbiturate, opening her veins at the same time. In addition, she suffered from the consequences of the hepatitis for many years, fell into depression, suffered from severe and prolonged headaches.

Suicide

Ending years of life photographer Diana Arbus finished with pills in apathy and discontent from her work. She was under pressure of disappointment and oppression.

The departure from life was incomprehensible to all and strange, although it was assumed that the woman suffered from schizophrenia. She died on July 26, 1971, the woman was 48 years old. After her death, Diana Arbus became famous for her works in America, Canada, Europe. She devoted a lot of essays, books, was shot a feature film, telling a biography of the photographer. Every fan of her art is bound to watch the movie "Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus" (2006).