Diane Arbus Art

1923-1971- Diane Arbus was born in New York City in March of 1923. She studied with Alexey Brodovitch and Lisette Model. They both worked in the fashion industry as photographers. Arbus's artistic career started in 1959 when she began studying photography with Lisette Model. Arbus received a Guggenheim fellowship in 1963, as well as in '66. A year later, John Szarkowski curated her first exhibit at the Museum of Modern Art. On July 26th, 1971 she committed suicide. Arbus's work smashed the boundaries of what is considered to be proper photography. In 1972, the Museum of Modern Art held a major posthumous retrospective of her photographs and she was the first American photographer to be exhibited at the Venice Biennale. There was a recent film of her life starring Nicole Kidman.