History, as you know, people do, andImpress photographers. Gloss, glamor, creative delights are typical for a true master, who is looking for his ways in photography. Diana Arbus - one of the most famous personalities, is popular in its stay throughout the world. The creativity of an American of Russian-Jewish descent who has gone to another world in the halo of his fame is still disputed and is the subject of discussions in the best secular and western cultural institutions.
Who is D. Arbus
A mystery woman for many generations is notparted with his camera for almost a minute. She was interested in the surrounding world, people living in it, their feelings, actions and thoughts, she passed in her photographs. The works of Diane Arbus talk about unusual people belonging to different subcultures.
The mastery of a woman has reached perfection,has acquired its exquisite style and completely rejected glamor, the lacquered gloss of the United States after the war. Many are delighted by the independent and strong Diane Arbus. Biography of the photographer is full of various events, happy and tragic.
Birth
A future photo-art star appeared in thea simple Jewish family in 1923. Nemerovs were emigrants from cold Russia, among many other people who fled the country. His permanent home was found in the New York quarter, where Diana's grandfather, who had previously arrived with a Russian lover, already lived, contrary to the wishes of his relatives.
Parents have never been miserable.In the States, they opened their own business and became owners of a store selling furs. The economy and business management occupied the free time of parents, who did not have to stay on the upbringing and education of their children. Therefore, the girl, brother and sister were brought up by governesses. Parents were troubled and found nannies for children. Diana Arbus from childhood had a special way of thinking and a creative look at the world around her.
Growing up and first love
From an early age the girl was differentdisobedience and disobedience to the foundations of views. After graduating from the school of ethical culture, she entered the Fieldston School, where she began to interest in art. Diana Arbus looked at people in a special way. The personal life of a famous photographer was always interested in fans.
Children's love overtook the girl in 13-year-oldage, and she immediately hurried to inform her parents that she was marrying a student of the acting faculty of Alan Arbus. The prospect of the daughter's marriage did not make her father and mother happy, and they decided on her departure to Cummington school. But all in vain, contrary to the parental will, Diana in 1941 became a wife and took her husband's surname.
The unsuccessful young actor was forced toleave a cherished career and get a job to support his young family. His post was far from art, he began to trade in neighboring shops.
Joint passion
Two years later the young man decided to study photo art and took a job in the army service courses. Began to attach his beloved to work, giving her a camera.
After some time, the couple seized in the capitalstudio fashion photography "Allan and Diana Arbus." Young people shared their professional obligations. A man engaged in the technical processing of photographs, the manifestation of images, printing.
The girl completely plunged into lifeartistic photo art. So she became the head of the studio. Successful joint work began to cause controversy. Each of them shared his point of view and defended it. Alan believed that the work should be based on the trend of fashionable photographs at the time, their color, angle, and hard illumination. Diana Arbus, whose photos are recognized as real and alive, began to look for interesting ideas filled with various contents.
The gap that influenced the work of Arbus Diana
After a few months, the routine and graymonotonous life of the studio become boring to a young woman. Advertising fashion trends and other directions did not interest her. In the 60s, the husband and wife decided to close their offspring. After two years, they parted forever.
For Diana, the months of finding their place inareas of photos. After meeting with Lizette Model, they began to get involved in a new direction. The turn of creative destiny was outlined in the life of the future master. It was at that time that Diana Arbus found her style in art, which still excites the feelings of many generations.
She wandered through the streets of the night city, looked atdaily routine of people in their professional activities, watched children running around in puddles, feeding pigeons. The life of ordinary Americans was interested in the master. So prostitutes, transvestites, freaks with anomalies of their development, nudists entered her creative life.
Diana didn’t like to build characters like thisdid other photographers. She shot them in everyday poses, did not ask to pose. Therefore, everything in the photo looks natural and simple. Pompousness is not found in any of the works. The true world tried to show Diana Arbus. Photos of her works can now be seen in many galleries in the world.
Preparation of the angle, plot, background and placementobjects - everything was annoying and was against her nature. She called freaks "aristocrats", as they passed the life exam at birth and growing up. Art critics quickly noticed a rising star. Someone admired her creativity, someone rejected completely. But there were no indifferent spectators.
Fame around the world
In the 60s work was presented in the hallsthe New York Museum of Modern Art. Photos began to appear in the prestigious magazines of that decade. Recognition as a famous best photo masters came to Diana once and for all.
But, like many creative people, Arbus becameattend suicidal thoughts on the creative Olympus. She decides to take a large dose of barbiturate, opening her veins at the same time. In addition, she suffered for many years from the effects of hepatitis, fell into depression, suffered from severe and prolonged headaches.
Suicide
The final years of her life photographer Diana Arbus ended up with pills in apathy and dissatisfaction with her work. She was under the pressure of frustration and depression.
Departure from life was incomprehensible and strange to all, althoughand it was assumed that the woman suffered from schizophrenia. She was gone July 26, 1971, the woman was 48 years old. After her death, Diana Arbus became famous for her work in America, Canada, and Europe. She devoted a lot of essays, books, was filmed a feature film that tells the biography of the photographer. Be sure every fan of her work should watch the movie "Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus" (2006).
