Just posted a loving appreciation of Diane Arbus. The exhibition at the Met in NYC in 2005 is still the best art thing I’ve EVER been to:
https://anartapart.substack.com/p/timeless-novelties
”The question of exploitation versus empathy in Arbus’s work cannot be definitively resolved, and perhaps this irresolvability is part of what gives her photographs their continuing power. They exist in an uncomfortable space between document and art, between compassion and voyeurism, between revealing and projecting. This ambiguity reflects larger questions about photography itself as a medium that both captures and constructs reality, that promises truth while trafficking in surfaces.”
#dianearbus #anartapart #carlabrahamsson
