King and Queen of a Senior Citizens dance, NYC, 1970
Diane Arbus is by far my all time favorite photographer. I first saw this image a couple years ago, and I was instantly drawn to her perspective of individuals in a society. Arbus captures the essence of individualism in each one of her photographs and made it her goal to travel around and bring witness to "deviant and marginal"people. Her subjects include dwarfs, giants, transexuals, twins, circus performers, nudist, etc. The images are raw which brings reality into them. I am drawn to her photographs because of the unique and eerie feel they bring to me. Her photos are not emotionless. They are emotion empowered. I think the purpose of a photograph is evoke emotion in the audience, and Arbus is the epitome of that. Her images put together make up a society of outcasts.
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