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“…poor fools who photographs beggars on the street ”
I agree that photography homeless people is often a bit shameful in that it is clearly one of the easiest forms of documentary photography, but, when it’s done well, i think it makes for a useful reminder to prevent such marginalised people from becoming more invisible than they already are.
I may be saying this just to justify some of my own amateurish pictures, but I also bear in the professional endeavours of documentary photographers like Boogie, for example.
Good post though as usual – I learnt something as usual.
I think someone is filming a movie about her…Let´s see what image of her they will paint.
I agree with you…Fakes of freaks…Today photographers are going to Africa to get these fakes in B&W.
Nice reading.
Daniel
P.S. Where could I see these contact sheets ?
This book has her contact sheets.
You can bet the film will elevate her to Hollywood sainthood, meaning that she will mercifully be forgotten two weeks afer the premiere.
“Most people go through life dreading they’ll have a traumatic experience. Freaks were born with their trauma. They’ve already passed their test in life. They’re aristocrats.”
We know that Arbus had a sheltered, affluent upbringing. She suggests that this is a debilitating environment, one where people live in fear of trauma. She also would have been well acquainted with the oppressive, cruel, inescapable power of “class, of decorum, of decency”, everything in the purview of good taste. Rather than her conscience catching up with her, I think this dread and powerlessness is what overwhelmed her.