November at the Center for Creative Photography Oct 30, 2009
Prints by some of the greatest portraitists and photographic image-makers of the 19th, 20th, and 21st century are included: Southworth and Hawes, Gertrude Kasebier, Edward Weston, Dorothea Lange, W. Eugene Smith, Ansel Adams, Diane Arbus, Yousuf Karsh and Richard Avedon. Photo News. (AbsoluteArts.com)
Audrey Niffenegger on Her Ghostly New Novel Oct 9, 2009
Someone in some review somewhere mentioned Diane Arbus' photo of those young twins, and that's an for me. I'm a huge admirer of Diane Arbus. (Time.com)
Model’s works were both unsettling and influential Sep 12, 2009
It s an impressive bunch - among them are Larry Fink, who co-curated the show, Bruce Weber, and Diane Arbus - but it s the teacher who commands attention in this classroom. Model was born in Vienna in 1901. (Boston Globe)
Susan Hiller: 'The J. Street Project' Aug 9, 2009
It includes several portraits by Richard Avedon, whose work is also on view in the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art's concurrent retrospective, and several little-known images by Helen Levitt and Diane Arbus. But the real diversion here lies as much in discerning the undeclared logic of Fraenkel's arrangement of the pictures as in individual pieces. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
Global art star May 14, 2009
Nicole Kidman as Diane Arbus, art photographer of the weird. Sources: BoxOfficeMojo. (USA Today)
Batwoman's back Apr 10, 2009
" Alter-ego The same music monthlies have "been very slow to catch on" to Bat For Lashes, she says, but "when they have done features, they've been really nice". She bristles, however, when journalists suggest Two Suns is a "concept album" with Khan playing a blonde alter-ego called Pearl. The character is "one tiny little element" of the record, she says; a femme fatale inspired by drag queens in New York and photographs by Diane Arbus and Cindy Sherman. The singer was a nursery school teacher... (BBC News -- Entertainment)
Fraenkel puts Hopper's vision in perspective Mar 28, 2009
Pictures by Robert Frank, Lee Friedlander, Stephen Shore, Diane Arbus (1923-1971), Walker Evans (1903-1975) and others suggest that memories of Hopper's art may have weighed on photographers' imaginations more heavily than has the reality of his work. Most of the photographs on hand rank as more reminiscent of Hopper's art than indebted to it. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
Williams College exhibit highlights outsiders of Chinese society Mar 15, 2009
Liu specifically cites August Sander and Diane Arbus as influences on this project. It's easy enough to see why. (Boston Globe)
5 Don't-Miss Events Mar 1, 2009
San Francisco: Eight paintings by Edward Hopper will visit the city for the first time, along with the work of eight photographers (including Diane Arbus and Lee Friedlander) influenced by Hopper. Fraenkel Gallery, March 5 -May 2. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Travel)
How art connected 2 sides of the Berlin Wall Feb 17, 2009
Most notably Schulze Eldowy, a kind of German samizdat Diane Arbus, photographed an East Berlin postal worker named Lothar in his uniform on the street and then took a picture of him (this was apparently his idea) seated naked on his bed, a stoop-shouldered, unsmiling, skinny nudist, below a heaving shelf of liquor bottles. The pair of images, public and private, encapsulates the dual despair of ordinary life behind the Iron Curtain. (International Herald Tribune)
