Diane Arbus: Matthaei family portraits

Diane Arbus was an American photographer, born on the 14th March 1923 till July 2th 1971.She was also a writer noted for black and white square photographs of " deviant and marginal people or of people whose normality seems ugly or surreal." Diane believed that a camera could be “a little bit cold, a little bit harsh” But its scruitny revealed the truth.

Between 2003 and 2006, Arbus and her work were the subjects of another major traveling exhibition, Diane Arbus Revelations.she commited suicide she was a very depressed woman. She took many images but when it came to deciding the best ones she always chose those that looked depressing and had a negative vibe.

"Freaks was a thing I photographed a lot,"she wrote. She started of by working with her husband she used to do advertising for fashion photography, they became very succesful and even appeared in Vogue magazine. Her depression all started when marriage ended and from then she was a different woman. 

These picture ws taken on a Christmas of the Mattahaei family, but this was not any old Christmas. Dianne would get people to pose in her own style, yes she would want them to look so depressed. Arbus repeatedly photogaphed this girl alone, we see her in a lacey sleevless dress standing firm with her arms aside. The whole point of this image was to create something that Dianne wanted. We see her long straight hair with the frindge to cover most of her face then dark eyes with dark lips it gives a very cold feeling about the image.