Diane Arbus (61 page)

145
“Mary was the greatest dancer…”: Ibid.

146
“She began appearing…”: Rosalyn Drexler to PB, phone interview, April 20,1979.

146
“Diane never drank…”: Paul Resika to PB, interview, Oct. 3, 1978.

147
“Amy stands tiny…”:
Life Library of Photography: Photographing Children,
p. 176.

147
“pieces of dreams”: “Mary Frank Explores Women’s Erotic Fantasies,” by James R. Matthews,
New York Times,
Jan. 19, 1975.

147
“The men in our group…”: Barbara Forst to PB, interview, February 1979.

147
“Everybody was screwing…”: Ibid.

147
“so we were not sustained…”: Ibid.

148
“If only Hitler were alive…”: Paul Resika to PB, interview, Oct. 3, 1978.

149
“this exquisite…”: Helen Merrill to PB, interview, Oct. 10, 1978.

149
“Doon is far braver…”: Tina Fredericks to PB, interview, Oct. 23, 1979.

150
“By the end of a session…”: Richard Marx to PB, interview, March 3, 1979.

150
“If only we had…”: Ibid.

151
“the dinners fizzled…”: Alex Eliot to PB, interview, July 20, 1980.

151
“By now our offices…”: Ibid. 151 “which clinched it…”: Ibid.

151
“I wanted to live…”: Ibid.

151
“blowing until…”: Ibid.

153
“I told her…”: Cheech McKensie to PB, interview, March 1979.

153
“I am going to be numbed…”: Ibid.

153
“we were thrown out on the street…”: Ibid.

157
“They were gently estranged”: Bob Meservey to PB, interview, June 1979.

157
“It wasn’t very homey”: Tina Fredericks to PB, interview, Oct. 23, 1979.

157
“Allan said…”: Arthur Unger to PB, interview, June 7, 1982.

158
“He dreamed…”: Emile de Antonio to PB, interview, Nov. 19, 1980.

158
“I think she was wearing…”: Ted Schwartz to PB, interview, Dec. 1979.

159
“I thought Diane and Allan would always…”: Gertrude Nemerov to PB, interview, July 21, 1978.

159
“A lot of his Seventh Avenue cronies…”: Nate Cummings to PB, interview, Aug. 20, 1978.

159
“Nemerov’s paintings are crude…”:
Time,
Nov. 24, 1958.

159
“People who bought them…”: Ibid.

159
“You see? An artist can be…”: John Pauker to PB, interview, May 24, 1981.

159
“As we got poorer and poorer…”: Amy Arbus, interview on radio station WBAI, Jan. 3, 1973.

160
“She was upset…”: Tina Fredericks to PB, interview, Oct. 23, 1979.

160
“She photographed…”: Frank Zachary to PB, interview, April 7, 1979.

161
“De knows everybody…”: Tina Fredericks to PB, interview, Oct. 23, 1979.

161
“De connected artists with everything…”: Andy Warhol and Pat Hackett,
POPism:
t
he Warhol ‘60s
(Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1980), pp. 3-4.

161
“But I was never…”: Emile de Antonio to PB, interview, Nov. 11, 1980.

161
“I called it that…”: Ibid.

161
“And it wasn’t…”: Ibid.

161
“the delicate art…”: Diane Arbus, “The Full Circle,”
Infinity,
Feb. 1962.

162
“They were grainy…”: Emile de Antonio to PB, interview, Nov. 16, 1980.

163
“like the pits…”: John Putnam to PB, interview, July 19, 1979.

163
“People keep asking me…”: William Borders, “Moondog,”
New York Times,
May 15, 1965.

164
“He had an awful smile”: Amy Arbus, interview on radio station WRVR, Fall 1972.

164
“It’s not degrading…”: William Borders, “Moondog.”

164
“Presumably Diane did…”: Emile de Antonio to PB, interview, Nov. 19, 1981.

164
“because they can’t fake…”: John Putnam to PB, interview, Aug. 20, 1978.

164
“Jesus! these stories…”: Emile de Antonio to PB, interview, Nov. 16, 1980.

165
“I’ve been photographing…”: Charlie Reynolds to PB, interview, Sept. 25, 1981.

165
“Diane was fascinated…”: the Amazing Randi to PB, interview, Oct. 4, 1981.

166
“these very strange people”: Amy Arbus, interview on radio station WBAI, Jan. 3, 1973.

166
“There’s some thrill…”: Ikko Narahara, tapes of Diane Arbus Class 1970-71.

166
“Even then robbings…”: Emile de Antonio to PB, interview, Nov. 19, 1981.

167
“She became almost…”: Presto to PB, interview, Oct. 5, 1981.

167
“They were like foreign bodies…”: Amy Arbus interview on radio station WBAI, Jan. 3, 1973.

167
“I thought they were great…”: the Amazing Randi to PB, interview, Oct. 4, 1981.

167
“Everything he did…”: Ibid.

168
“He’d be wearing…”: Ibid.

169
“Marvin and I are similar…”: Tina Fredericks to PB, interview, Oct. 23, 1979.

169
“Marvin would always get turned on…”: Nancy Grossman to PB, interview, March 24, 1979.

170
“first great female private eye…”: Marvin Israel, “Diane Arbus,”
Infinity,
Nov. 1972.

170
“Marvin thinks an artist’s…”: Larry Shainburg to PB, interview, Jan. 24, 1984.

170
“he believed…”: Ibid.

170
“Marvin was like a creative sounding board…”: Chris von Wangenheim to PB, interview, Dec. 8, 1980.

170
“Diane changed…”: Cheech McKensie to PB, interview, March 6, 1980.

170
“He was very contemptuous…”: Shirley Fingerhood to PB, interview, Feb. 24, 1981.

170
“ ‘Come on! Come on!’…”: Ben Fernandez to PB, interview, Feb. 1, 1979.

172
“We were developing…”: David Newman to PB, interview, Jan. 31, 1979.

172
“bowled over…”: Harold Hayes to PB, interview, Aug. 17, 1978.

172
“Diane knew the importance…”: Robert Benton to PB, interview, Jan. 31, 1979.

173
“very sexual, very feminine…”: Harold Hayes to PB, interview, Aug. 17, 1978.

173
“Diane was so pleased…”: Ibid.

174
“William Harrington…”:
New York Times,
1935.

174
“Detective Wanderer…”: Ibid.

174
“collecting things…”: A. D. Coleman,
Light Readings
(Oxford University Press, 1979), p. 77.

174
“pet crematorium…”: Ibid.

174
“It would quickly mingle…”: K. T. Morgan,
Politiks & Other Human Interests,
March 14, 1978, p. 30.

174
“There are 28 stars…”: Diane Arbus, “The Full Circle,”
Infinity,
Feb. 1962.

175
“I foolishly decided…”: Harold Hayes to PB, interview, Aug. 17, 1978.

175
“I feel like an explorer”: Seymour Krim to PB, interview, May 14, 1981.

175
“It would be two a.m. …”: Robert Benton to PB, interview, Jan. 31, 1979.

175
“I was frightened by her capacity…”: Doon Arbus, “Diane Arbus, Photographer,”
MS Magazine,
Oct. 1972.

176
“in a few years…”: Stanley Edgar Hyman, “The Art of Joseph Mitchell,”
The Critic’s Credentials
(Atheneum, 1978), p. 79.

176
“typing away in my cell…”: Joseph Mitchell to PB, interview, Oct. 30, 1979.

177
“Born freaks are the aristocracy…”: Joseph Mitchell,
McSorley’s Wonderful Saloon
(Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1943), p. 95.

177
“Most people go through life…”:
Newsweek,
March 20, 1967.

177
‘“I urged Diane not to romanticize…”: Joseph Mitchell to PB, interview, Oct. 30, 1979.

178
“She said she had looked…”: Ibid.

178
“She could hypnotize people…”: Joel Meyerowitz to PB, phone interview, Jan. 9, 1981.

178
“Ssh! I’m working”: Richard Marx to PB, interview, March 3, 1980.

178
“I asked her to please take my picture…”: Dale McConathy to PB, interview, Nov. 14, 1979.

178
“There are hundreds…”: Marvin Israel, “Diane Arbus,”
Infinity,
Nov. 1972.

178
“I love to go to people’s houses…”:
Newsweek,
March 20, 1967.

179
“She could be extremely…”: Frederick Eberstadt to PB, interview, Feb. 5, 1979.

179
“What came to really excite her…”: Marvin Israel, “Diane Arbus,”
Infinity,
Nov. 1972.

179
“I’d wanted to be an actress…”: Polly Boshung to PB, interview, Aug. 10, 1979.

180
“Diane Arbus was awful nice…”: Ibid.

180
“I just told her…”: Shirley Fingerhood to PB, interview, Feb. 24, 1981.

180
“last angry summer…”: Sidney Simon to PB, interview (date unavailable).

180
“and Allan, Susan and her husband…”: Ibid.

181
“We hunted high and low…”: Ibid.

181
“bejeweled 6 by 9 foot room on 48 Street…”: Diane Arbus, “The Full Circle,”

Infinity,
Feb. 1962.

181
“On his left hand…”: Ibid.

181
“He who searches for trash…”: Ibid. “a hermit and a very cheerful man…”: Harold Hayes to PB, interview, Aug. 17, 1978.

182
“Your last letter…”: Ibid.

182
“I am what I call…”: Diane Arbus, “The Full Circle,”
Infinity,
Feb. 1962.”

183
“These are five singular people…”: Ibid.

183
“Nancy did publish…”: Ilya Stanger to PB, interview, Jan. 6, 1981.

183
“I didn’t understand…”: Nancy White to PB, interview, Oct. 13, 1980.

183
“We sat around…”: Emile de Antonio to PB, interview, Nov. 19, 1981.

184
“We got a couple of cancellations…”: Paul Aison to PB, interview, July 1981.

184
“Dear Mr. Mitchell…”: Joseph Mitchell to PB, interview, Oct. 30, 1979.

184
“Howard was expected…”: Dorothy Evslin to PB, interview, May 8, 1979.

184
“Howard Nemerov is one of the best…”:
Yale Review,
June 1961.

185
“Daddy never praised…”: John Pauker to PB, interview, May 23, 1981.

185
“Daddy was absolutely devastated…”: Renée Sparkia to PB, interview, March 12, 1979.

185
“I really did love Diane…”: Ibid.

187
“The most mysterious thing…”: Lisette Model to PB, interview, Feb. 6, 1979.

187
“I am very gloomy and scared…”: DA, postcard to the Meserveys, c. 1962.

187
“Diane always put…”: Tom Morgan to PB, interview, Sept. 6, 1979.

188
“Like he’d say five million Chinese…”: DA to Studs Terkel, interview, Dec. 1969.

188
“the wildest looniest time…”: Tom Wolfe,
The New Journalism
(Harper and Row, 1973), pp. 29-30.

188
“Dick keeps setting…”: John Putnam to PB, interview, July 20, 1978.

188
“Celebrities have the faces…”:
Newsweek,
Oct. 16, 1978.

189
“unearned intimacy”: Richard Avedon to Connie Goldman, interview on National Public Radio, March 31, 1977.

189
“Diane and I were so close…”: Jane Wilson to PB, interview, Dec. 18, 1978.

189
“‘But I had a visual…”: Richard Avedon to Connie Goldman, interview on National Public Radio, March 31, 1977.

190
“because Ike’s expression…”: John Putnam to PB, interview, July 3, 1979.

190
“Dick does everything with grace”:
Newsweek,
March 20, 1967.

190
“Avedon for all his phenomenal success…”: Lee Witkin to PB, interview, Nov. 19, 1981.

191
“because I no longer wanted to hide…”: Richard Avedon to Connie Goldman, interview on National Public Radio, March 31, 1977.

191
“Marvin loved
La Dolce Vita…
”: Dale McConathy to PB, interview, Nov. 14, 1979.

192
“They respected each other so much…”: Neil Selkirk to PB, interview, Oct. 12, 1982.

193
“These shreds…”: Doon Arbus, “Diane Arbus, Photographer,”
MS Magazine,
Oct. 1972.

193
“A photograph for Diane…”: Marvin Israel, interview on CBS-TV
Camera Three,
Nov. 12, 1972.

193
“But she showed me…”: Alen McWeeney to PB, interview, Dec. 5, 1980.

193
“Taking a portrait…”: John Gossage to PB, interview, May 23, 1981.

193
“a kind of calypso”: Ikko Narahara, tapes of Diane Arbus Class 1970-71.

193
“He’s really…”: Ibid.

194
“You know how every mother…”: Joseph Mitchell to PB, interview, May 9, 1980.

195
“You feel silly…”: John Putnam to PB, interview, July 19, 1979.

195
“They run the whole social gamut”: Ibid.

195
“I mean you were allowed…”: Mary Ellen Andrews to PB, interview, Dec. 1, 1978.

195
“You’re always jumping…”: Suzanne Mantell to PB, interview, Dec. 5, 1978.

195
“began to wonder…”: Ikko Narahara, tapes of Diane Arbus Class 1970-71.

195
“I couldn’t…”: Henry Wolf to PB, interview, Sept. 5, 1979.

196
“she introduced herself…”: Alan Levy, “Working with Diane Arbus: A Many-Splendored Experience,”
Art News,
Summer 1973.

197
“Deeyan taught me to look…”: Ibid.

197
“On the other hand…”: Ibid.

197
“Stay outa the sun…”: Dan Talbot to PB, interview, Oct. 13, 1980.

197
“She was genuinely surprised…”: Charlie Reynolds to PB, interview, Sept. 25, 1981.

198
“Diane would cook me an egg…”: Hiro to PB, interview, May 6, 1982.

198
“But it was her portraits…”: Ibid.

198
“It’s almost trancelike…”: Owen Edwards, “Hiro Who May Just Be the Great American Photographer,”
American Photographer,
Jan. 1982.