Diane Arbus

[Stephanie Chernikowski]

-----Original Message-----
From: Wayne Johnson <cadaobh@shentel.net>
Sent: Jun 26, 2004 11:49 PM
To: austin-ghetto-list@pairlist.net
Subject: Diane Arbus

Diane Arbus took a lot of
risks to show what people who were "outsiders".... Personally, I don't like the
word Freak.

YES!

She is, in my opinion, a "feminist photographer" ....

NO! she is tough minded, as was eugene smith, and only feminist in the nice girls don't look at these things. hence...

 if many of her images had been taken by, say, Frederick Arbus,
people would have been talking about what a great documentarian "he" was.

YES!

What is "good" is too often determined by what is "new" and what is new
is...from the art gallery point-of-view...what is currently selling.  ...
People used to think Von Gogh was utter trash, now look.


and the impressionists.

nice perceptions, wayne.