Diane Arbus

Diane was born with the last name Nemerov. She was born to Jewish parents in New York City. She went to the Feildston School for Ethical Culture. and at age eighteen married Allan Arbus. They had two kids then divorced in 1969. Before they divorced she and her husband took pictures for magazines such as Glamour, Seventeen, Vogue, Harpers Baazaar. Even though they both said they "hated the fashion world." Diane worked with and studied under many of the famous photographers. Her main subject of photos were "deviant and marginal people, dwarfs, giants, transvestites, nudists, and circus performers, or else of people whose normality seems ugly or surreal." A quote directly from her is " Freaks are a thing i photographed a lot Most people go through life dreading they'll have a traumatic experience. Freaks were born with their trauma. They've already passed their test in life. They're aristocrats." Diane Arbus killed herself in 1971.