A New Snapshot Of Diane Arbus

“During her lifetime, photographer Diane Arbus was lionized, but she was also lambasted for being exploitative. Her suicide in 1971 seemed to corroborate the caricature of her as a freaky ghoul.” In the first retrospective of her work since 1972 a “new portrait is emerging of one of the most powerful American artists of the 20th century, in the style that she favored. Uncropped.”