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9 unusual facts about Diane Arbus


Alexander Nemerov

His writing often analyzes fiction and poetry alongside works of visual art, perhaps as a result of his heritage — his father was the poet Howard Nemerov, his aunt the photographer Diane Nemerov Arbus.

Currently, his research interests focus on two projects: a study of a single night’s performance of Macbeth during Abraham Lincoln’s presidency, and a study of the artistic relationship between his father, the poet Howard Nemerov, and his aunt, the photographer Diane Arbus.

Doon Arbus

Doon Arbus (born April 3, 1945), a daughter of actor Allan Arbus and photographer Diane Arbus, is a writer and journalist.

Gregory Gibson

Gibson’s third book Hubert's Freaks, is the story of Bob Langmuir, a gifted but troubled antiquarian book dealer whose headlong pursuit of the archive of a Times Square freak show led him to the discovery of a trove of hitherto unknown photographs by the great American photographer Diane Arbus.

Ikkō Narahara

During this time he took part in a class by the American photographer Diane Arbus.

John Putnam

He was friends with Diane Arbus, and they sometimes took photographs together at the Hudson River docks.

Ruth Rix

Diane Arbus and Barbara Hepworth alongside comparatively unknown ‘art-breaker’ Rix.

Samuel Fosso

The style of Fosso is somewhat comparable with that of Diane Arbus, in a way that his self-portraits show a glimpse of our own humanity.

Ursula Merchant

In 1967 Ursula met and briefly lived with Diane Arbus whilst in New York, after attending the "New Documents" exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art.


...And No One Else Wanted to Play

The initial release of the 12" LP featured a copyrighted image by Diane Arbus entitled Child with Toy Hand Grenade in Central Park, NYC.

Amy Arbus

Amy Arbus (born 1954) is a New York City-based photographer and is the daughter of actor Allan Arbus and photographer Diane Arbus and the sister of writer and journalist Doon Arbus.

Howard Nemerov

Nemerov was brother to photographer Diane Nemerov Arbus and father to art historian Alexander Nemerov, Professor of the History of Art and American Studies at Stanford University.

Peder Lund

Exhibitions include solo- and group exhibitions with artists such as Diane Arbus, Louise Bourgeois, Bruce Conner, William Eggleston, Howard Hodgkin, Robert Irwin, André Kertész, Paul McCarthy, Catherine Opie, David Reed, Ugo Rondinone, Ed Ruscha, Lucas Samaras, Kazuo Shiraga, Shōmei Tōmatsu, Franz West, Terry Winters, Lucas Blalock and Constantin Brâncusi.


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Patricia Bosworth

Bosworth's book on Diane Arbus was turned into a film called Fur (2006), directed by Steven Shainberg.