DIANE ARBUS

Diane Arbus was one of the most important examples of the Realist current. Her world between light and shadow was constantly projected in her photos. A dualism between glossy and dark world that has never abandoned her life.

With her husband she signed successful photo shoots for Glamour, Vogue and Seventeen magazines, and a photo of them had been even chosen for Edward Steichen's famous exhibition The Family Man at MoMA in New York. 

However, she soon felt the need to express her personal style. In fact, she loved photographing strange, deformed, dwarf people, circus characters, bordering on scary. 

She was labeled "Freaks' photographer". 

Her photos were chosen by Harper's Baazar and Esquire and she started working with Richard Avedon. The habit of identifying with her characters pushed her in recent years to frequent asylums and nursing homes, and perhaps, for a now fragile personality, all this became unbearable.