Diane Arbus (62 page)

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“practically one a month”: Robert Benton to PB, interview, Jan. 28, 1979.

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“Diane would come up…”: Ibid.

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“Diane made no concessions…”: David Newman to PB, interview, Jan. 28, 1979.

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“strong—athletic…”: Paul Salstrom to PB, interview, July 1, 1982.

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“Diane spent time…”: Ibid.

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“producing like crazy…”: Robert Benton to PB, interview, Jan. 28, 1979.

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“Actually, it was just a compound”: Tom Morgan to PB, interview, Sept. 6, 1979.

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“Sometimes she’d whip up…”: Ibid.

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“They were all married…”: Ibid.

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“The whole thing is too personal…”: Joan Morgan to PB, phone interview, Aug. 9, 1980.

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“It was twenty yards long…”: Paul Von Ringleheim to PB, interview, Jan. 22, 1980.

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“I hate Paul’s mural…”: Tom Morgan to PB, interview, Sept. 6, 1979.

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“This caused some consternation…”: Ibid.

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“I always phoned D…”: Renée Sparkia to PB, interview, Aug. 2, 1978.

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“Diane was delighted…”: May Eliot to PB, interview, Jan. 22, 1983.

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“there were big wine goblets…”: Ibid.

202
“Diane was trying…”: Emile de Antonio to PB, interview, Nov. 11, 1980.

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“I always saw…”: Robert Benton to PB, interview, Jan. 31, 1979.

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“Allan was whispering something…”: Barbara Lamb to PB, interview, Oct. 1979.

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“Plenty of wine…”: Chris von Wangenheim to PB, interview, Dec. 8, 1980.

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“Diane looked straight at me…”: John A. Williams to PB, interview, Nov. 1979.

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“Diane’s friendship…”: Ibid.

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“Diane did ask…”: Ibid.

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“She connected…”: Ibid.

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“Sometimes I got the feeling…”: Ibid.

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“liked men better…”: Pat Peterson to PB, interview, Feb. 22, 1979.

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“Diane was many things…”: Marvin Israel, “Diane Arbus,”
Infinity,
Nov. 1972.

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“I’ve never heard…”: Frederick Eberstadt to PB, interview, Feb. 5, 1979.

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“Diane told me she wanted to have sex…”: John Putnam to PB, interview, July 20, 1978.

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“Women of my generation…”: Kathy Aison to PB, interview, July 27, 1981.

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“Because underneath Diane was…”: Emile de Antonio to PB, interview, Nov. 16, 1980.

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“We’d compare prints…”: Walter Silver to PB, interview, Oct. 23, 1981.

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“I remember…”: John Putnam to PB, interview, July 20, 1978.

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“He collects things…”: James Mellow, “Walker Evans Captures the Unvarnished Truth,”
New York Times,
Dec. 1, 1974.

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“He’d juggle…”: Isabelle Story to PB, interview, Jan. 9, 1981.

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“Marvin would…”: Ibid.

209
“some of the eccentric photographs…”: Ibid.

210
“March 3, 1963…”: from an unpublished letter of Walker Evans.

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“Walker had a falling out…”: Isabelle Story to PB, interview, Jan. 9, 1981.

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“Maybe it was because…”: Ibid.

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“She seemed turned on…”: Ibid.

210
“Class is the deepest mystery…”: Susan Sontag,
On Photography
(Delta, 1977), pp. 54-55.

211
“I’m living proof…”: Andy Warhol and Pat Hackett,
POPism: The Warhol ‘60s
(Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1980), p. 8.

211
“although Walker tried…”: Isabelle Story to PB, interview, Jan. 9, 1981. 211 “a terrific story…”:
Diane Arbus, Aperture
monograph (1972).

211
“where everybody sat around…”: Isabelle Story to PB, interview, Jan. 9, 1981.

212
“butts all over the place”: Renée Sparkia to PB, interview, March 12, 1979.

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“Even Grandma Rose…”: Ibid.

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“My father taught me…”: Howard Nemerov,
Journal of the Fictive Life
(Rutgers University Press, 1965), p. 70.

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“David had been the big gun…”: Helen Quat to PB, interview, 1978.

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“go in and ask…”: Renée Sparkia to PB, interview, March 11, 1979.

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“American rites and customs…”: DA, Guggenheim application, 1963.

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“mostly about Daddy”: Renée Sparkia to PB, interview, March 12, 1979.

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“I didn’t really adore him”: DA to Studs Terkel, interview, Dec. 1969.

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“businessman fantasies”: Ibid.

214
“The cold was my revenge…”: Howard Nemerov,
Journal of the Fictive Life,
p. 69.

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“[My father] was a man…”: Ibid.

214
“He looks like Everyman”: Howard Nemerov to PB, interview, July 20, 1979.

214
“She was very upset…”: Harold Hayes to PB, interview, Aug. 17, 1978.

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“Suddenly he woke up…”: DA to Studs Terkel, interview, Dec. 1969.

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“really awful when my father died…”: Ibid.

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“how [Daddy’
s
] energy seemed reapportioned…”: Ibid.

215
“in a whispery little voice…”: Ben Fernandez to PB, interview, Feb. 1, 1979.

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“Mommy came…”: Renée Sparkia to PB, interview, March 12, 1979.

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“not an intimate…”: Arthur Sainer to PB, interview, April 3, 1981.

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“really pissed off…”: Ibid.

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“Diane would have…”: Bruce Davidson to PB, interview, Feb. 5, 1980.

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“I remember…”: Arthur Sainer to PB, interview, April 3,1981.

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“counting all the people…”: John Putnam to PB, interview, July 19, 1979.

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“Diane really dug…”: Ibid.

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“I’d tell Diane…”: Ibid.

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“Triplets remind me…”: Peter Crookston to PB, interview, Dec. 20, 1979.

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“that a snake charmer…”: Howard Nemerov to PB, interview, July 19, 1979.

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“Everything is superb and breathtaking…”: Doon Arbus, “Diane Arbus, Photographer,”
MS Magazine,
Oct. 1972.

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“burst into tears…”: Ibid.

219
“She called one morning…”: Joseph Mitchell to PB, interview, Oct. 30, 1979.

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“We talked a great deal…”: Ibid.

220
“my brother’s and my…”: DA to Studs Terkel, interview, Dec. 1969.

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“I hate intelligence…”: Howard Nemerov,
Journal of the Fictive Life
(Rutgers University Press, 1965), p. 92.

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“A dream of…”: Ibid., p. 78.

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“We had the same lexicon”: DA to Studs Terkel, interview, Dec. 1969.

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“windowless elevator hall…”: Howard Nemerov,
Journal of the Fictive Life,
p. 90.

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“who became a peculiar clue…”: DA to Studs Terkel, interview, Dec. 1969.

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“She always seemed sad…”: Emile de Antonio to PB, interview, Oct. 10, 1980.

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“I probably ended up…”: Ibid.

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“Diane was at every spectacle…”: Bob Adelman to PB, interview, Aug. 5, 1981.

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“most of the protests…”: Ibid.

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“She used to…”: Frederick Eberstadt to PB, interview, Feb. 5, 1979.

224
“Everybody can be famous for fifteen minutes”: Andy Warhol and Pat Hackett,
POPism: The Warhol ‘60s
(Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1980).

225
“I’d stop at nothing…”: Mark Haven to PB, interview, July 17, 1981.

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“Frazier and I talked…”: John Putnam to PB, interview, Oct. 8, 1980.

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“She was peddling…”: Pat Rotter to PB, interview, Sept. 1979.

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“the most unbelievable walk…”: Ibid.

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“The lobby was like Hades”: Ibid.

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“In the early sixties…”: Andy Warhol and Pat Hackett,
POPism: The Warhol ‘60s,
p. 223

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“You actually get a sense…”: Isabelle Story to PB, interview, Jan. 9, 1981.

227
“This artist is daring…”: Walker Evans in Louis Kronenberger, ed.,
Quality: Its Image in the Arts
(Atheneum, 1969), p. 172.

227
“they weren’t pictures…”: John Szarkowski to PB, interview, Aug. 9,1981.

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“Diane had already…”: Ibid.

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“Suddenly I could not…”: Bruce Davidson to PB, interview, Feb. 5, 1980.

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“And I asked…”: Ibid.

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“Diane and I…”: Ibid.

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“I’ll never forget it…”: Ibid.

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“You’re better taking pictures…”: Ibid.

231
“I don’t know…”: Ibid.

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“God, those two women…”: Ibid.

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“Lisette had been intimidated…’“: Bob Cato to PB, interview, Aug. 5, 1982.

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“some are instinctive…”: Lisette Model to PB, interview, Feb. 6,1979.

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“Whenever I photograph…”: Ibid.

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“Oh—what she told me!…”: Ibid.

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“She had to be flying…”: Ibid.

232
“Let me be exploited!” Lisette Model to Philip Lopate, interview.

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“telling her of my plans…”: Peter Salstrom to PB, letter, Sept. 16, 1978.

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“It was a sunny…”: Ibid.

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“It was a deep friendship…”: Gay Talese to PB, interview, Feb. 1, 1980.

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“She was obviously…”: Ibid.

234
“We exhibited…”: Yuben Yee to PB, interview, May 25, 1981.

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“People were uncomfortable…”: Ibid.

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“Diane Arbus’ pictures…”: Jim Hughes to PB, interview, July 1, 1982.

235
“I sometimes thought…”: John Putnam to PB, interview, March 18,1980.

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“The whole area…”: Ibid.

236
“collective cave painting…”: documented by Mervyn Kurianski and Jon Naan, text by Norman Mailer,
The Faith of Graffiti
(An Alskog Book, 1974).

236
“It’s impossible to get out…”: John Putnam to PB, interview, March 18, 1980.

236
“She was gentle…”: John Gossage to PB, interview, May 24,1981.

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“Dorothea Lange had the idea…”: Bob Adelman to PB, interview, Aug. 5, 1981.

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“Diane was a terrific teacher…”: Paula Hutsinger to PB, interview, March 21, 1979.

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“In another class…”: Ibid.

238
“He influenced Brassai…”: Ibid.

239
“Don’t you love freaks?”: Susan Brownmiller to PB, interview, Jan. 3,1980.

239
“Diane said…”: Presto the Fire Eater to PB, interview, Oct. 5, 1981.

239
“She walked off…”: Ibid.

240
“These are a new generation of photographers…”: John Szarkowski, wall label for “New Documents” show, March 1967.

241
“steadying hand”: DA, postcard to John Szarkowski, c. 1966.

241
“She imagined…”: Garry Winogrand to PB, interview, Nov. 10, 1981.

241
“Before that I’d been seeing her…”: Ibid.

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“I thought her idea…”: Ibid.

241
“It was like…”: Chris von Wangenheim to PB, interview, Dec. 8, 1980.

241
“two Mamiya…”: John Putnam to PB, interview, March 18, 1980.

242
“Diane Arbus’ closest friend…”: Owen Edwards, “Marvin Israel, the Mentor Who Doesn’t Want to Be Famous,”
Village Voice,
Oct. 23, 1975.

242
“Diane doesn’t love…”: Gertrude Nemerov to PB, interview, July 24, 1978.

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“my biggest influence…”: Owen Edwards, “Marvin Israel, the Mentor Who Doesn’t Want to Be Famous.”

242
“In public, Diane always kept her distance…”: Emile de Antonio to PB, interview, Nov. 9,1980.

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“It was like a weird battle…”: Chris von Wangenheim to PB, interview, Dec. 8, 1980.

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“Often it was as if she didn’t have any identity…”: Diane Cleaver to PB, phone interview, March 15, 1980.

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“Marvin kept in touch…”: Carol Barilla to PB, interview, March 2,1980.

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“Marvin making a lunch date with me…”: Bob Cato to PB, interview, Aug. 5, 1982.

245
“I think I’ll buy this for Marvin…”: Pat Peterson to PB, interview, Feb. 22, 1979.

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“quite controversial…”: Ibid. 245

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“where an artist…”: Ibid.

245
“how much the trip…”: Ibid.

246
“Diane marching into my office…”: Geri Stutz to PB, interview, Dec. 9, 1981.

246
“Diane looked like an angel…”: Dorothy Seiberling, “Pinky’s Pictures,”
New York
Feb. 21, 1977.

246
“Get to the Museum…”: DA, postcard to Robert Meserveys. “For a while…”: Garry Winogrand to PB, interview, Nov. 10, 1981.

247
“what disturbed and disoriented people…”: Peter Bunnell, “Diane Arbus,”
Print Collectors Newsletter,
Jan/Feb.1977.

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“Diane’s images reminded us…”: John Szarkowski to PB, interview, Aug. 9, 1981.

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“It was like what happened…”: Saul Leiter to PB, interview, May 18, 1981.

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“Her subject matter was just too difficult…”: Emile de Antonio to PB, interview, Nov. 19, 1981.

247
“unflinchingly…”: Max Kosloff, “Some Contemporary American Photographers,”
Nation,
May 6, 1967.

248
“One does not look…”: Marion Magid, “Diane Arbus in New Documents,”
Arts,
April 1,1967.

248
“It impresses me terribly…”: DA to Ann Ray Martin, interview, 1967.

248
“I work from awkwardness…”: Ibid.

248
“I thought how ordinary…”: Ibid.

249
“She looks as if she’d stopped…”: Ibid.

249
“The process of photography…”: Ibid.

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“I love Cornell’s secrets…”: Ibid.