Diane Arbus

These are characters in a fairy tale for grown-ups. Wouldn't it be lovely? Yes.

These are characters in a fairy tale for grown-ups. Wouldn't it be lovely? Yes.

My favourite thing is to go where I've never been.

My favourite thing is to go where I've never been.

When you grow up your mother says, 'Wear rubbers or you'll catch cold.' When you become an adult you discover read more

When you grow up your mother says, 'Wear rubbers or you'll catch cold.' When you become an adult you discover that you have the right not to wear rubbers and to see if you catch cold or not. It's something like that.

I always thought of photography as a naughty thing to do - that was one of my favorite things about read more

I always thought of photography as a naughty thing to do - that was one of my favorite things about it, and when I first did it, I felt very perverse.

What moves me about...what's called technique...is that it comes from some mysterious deep place. I mean it can have something read more

What moves me about...what's called technique...is that it comes from some mysterious deep place. I mean it can have something to do with the paper and the developer and all that stuff, but it comes mostly from some very deep choices somebody has made that take a long time and keep haunting them.