flashofgod:

Diane Arbus, The House of Horrors, Coney Island, 1978.

There’s a quality of legend about freaks… I mean, if you’ve ever spoken to someone with two heads, you know they know something you don’t. Most people go through life dreading they’ll have a traumatic experience – freaks were born with their trauma. They’ve already passed their test in life. They’re aristocrats.

Diane Arbus

last-picture-show:

Diane Arbus, Self Portrait

Muscle Man in his dressing room with trophy, Brooklyn, N.Y. 1962

Two Ladies at the Automat, New York City, 1966 (installation view) 1966

Transvestite with torn stocking, N.Y.C. 1966 (installation view) 1966

Mae West on bed 1965

Untitled (1) 1970-71

Woman with a beehive hairdo 1965

Old black woman with gnarled hand (installation view) 1968

Large black family in small shack [Robert Evans and his family, 1968] (installation view) 1968

Addie Taylor in her shack, Beaufort, South Carolina (installation view) 1968

A family of six at a nudist camp (installation view) c. 1963

by Diane Arbus

1. Muscle Man in his dressing room with trophy, Brooklyn, N.Y., 1962

2. Two Ladies at the Automat, New York City, 1966

3. Transvestite with torn stocking, N.Y.C. 1966 (installation view)
4. Mae West on bed, 1965
5. Untitled (1), 1970-71
6. Woman with a beehive hairdo, 1965
7. Old black woman with gnarled hand (installation view), 1968
8. Large black family in small shack [Robert Evans and his family, 1968] (installation view)
9. Addie Taylor in her shack, Beaufort, South Carolina (installation view), 1968
10. A family of six at a nudist camp (installation view), c. 1963

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oldnewyorklandia:

Diane Arbus, Seated young couple on a park bench, N.Y.C., 1962.           

oldnewyorklandia:

Diane Arbus, Young Puerto Rican couple on a bench, N.Y.C., 1962.               

oldnewyorklandia:

Diane Arbus, Three boys at a baseball game in Central Park, N.Y.C., 1962.             

oldnewyorklandia:

Diane Arbus,  Girl with Easter hat and flag, N.Y.C., 1965.              

by Diane Arbus

‘Mom Holding Crying Child, New Jersey’, 1967 [x]

by Diane Arbus

Two ladies walking in Central Park, N.Y.C. 1963