Diane Arbus (1923 -1971)
Diane Arbus changed the possibilities of the photographic portrait forever. Born Diane Nemerov in 1923 to a wealthy Jewish family that owned Russeks, a fashionable Fifth Avenue department store, she grew up insulated from the rougher textures of American life. That insulation became, paradoxically, the engine of her art. From an early age she felt […]
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Stephen Shore arrived at photography with the certainty of a prodigy and the curiosity of a born observer. Born in New York City in 1947, he received his first darkroom kit at the age of six and began teaching himself the craft that would define his life’s work. By the time he was ten, a […]
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