The school of hard knocks Apr 13, 2008
It spans the years between the 1930s and the 1960s, an era in which the term 'American street photography' was defined by the likes of Lisette Model, Robert Frank, Lee Friedlander and Diane Arbus. Photography is the art of the split second,' said Model later, summing up the prevailing aesthetic of the time. (Guardian Unlimited -- Arts)
Movies: A photographer's life transformed into a neurotic fairy tale Nov 22, 2006
It's instructive that the film doesn't mention that she also studied with the photographer Lisette Model, who was an obvious influence. The idea that art can also arise from example and instruction just wouldn't jibe with the film's vision of an otherworldly kingdom in which hard work, ego and depression of the sort that probably claimed Arbus's life have no place. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
Prettier Pictures Nov 6, 2006
In these goings on, there isn t a trace of the Diane Arbus who was friends with many New York artists and intellectuals of the nineteen-fifties, who obsessively studied the work of August Sander and Walker Evans, who took classes from Berenice Abbott and Lisette Model, and who became a highly conscious, fully articulate teacher as well as a daring and even dangerous artist. This Arbus doesn t have an idea in her head, though she sure is a fine lady. (New Yorker)
I see you watching me, watching you Sep 19, 2006
These pictures echo the great street photographs of US pioneers Lisette Model and Leon Levinstein but with more sense of Australian Anglo-Celtic dreaming than, for example, Levinstein's phlegmatic, irascible dwellers of inner-city America. It was when Tyssen created her Voices of Silence series in 1991 that the artist's European heritage fully informed her vision. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Art | The photographers who captured and captivated Jan 22, 2006
Among its 72 prints, all but one in black-and-white, are classic images by acknowledged masters such as Robert Frank, Louis Faurer, Diane Arbus, Lee Friedlander, Garry Winogrand, Lisette Model, Larry Fink and Joel Meyerowitz. They are teamed with a number of lesser-known but equally talented people, some of them from eastern Pennsylvania, such as Mark Cohen, Bruce Davidson, William Klein, Leon Levinstein, Danny Lyon, Susan Meiselas and Bill Owens. (Philly.com -- Entertainment)
