To begin my blogging segment I would like to discuss today one of my favorite artists, a true visionary, Diane Arbus. For those unfamiliar with Arbus' work, she was a well brought up Jewish girl born in the 1920's. Her career began with designing fur coats, a family business. Upon meeting her future husband, Allan, she picked-up her first camera, photographing her fur creations. As time passed though, Arbus was unable to continue a career she was not passionate about, Alan permitted her to pursue her own interests and thus Arbus' famous creations came to existence, eventually ending her marriage. Finally at age 48 Arbus committed suicide.
I find her photography to be so real and deep with symbolism and irony. The emotions expressed in her art is so over powering. Most likely her best known piece depicts identical twin girls. Arbus was described as obsessed when it came to people slightly out of the rankings of ordinary. Her photo of twins, Cathleen (left) and Coleen (right) Wade, is today worth over $450,000. I believe the most obvious meaning behind this photo is that in society we are all carbon copies of one another, we all try to look alike, dress alike, act alike, however, we are all different and we cannot change that.
Arbus' work was so unique and pure that it later inspired the 2004 classic, Fur: an imaginary portrait of Diane Arbus, starring the ever so popular Nicole Kidman. Kidman plays the role beautifully, expressing the same emotion Arbus capture so well. The movie also captures the same symbolism and deeper meaning Arbus so well captured. This happens to be one of my favorite movies, it is deffinately worth checking out.
To begin my blogging segment I would like to discuss today one of my favorite artists, a true visionary, Diane Arbus. For those unfamiliar with Arbus' work, she was a well brought up Jewish girl born in the 1920's. Her career began with designing fur coats, a family business. Upon meeting her future husband, Allan, she picked-up her first camera, photographing her fur creations. As time passed though, Arbus was unable to continue a career she was not passionate about, Alan permitted her to pursue her own interests and thus Arbus' famous creations came to existence, eventually ending her marriage. Finally at age 48 Arbus committed suicide. 
I find her photography to be so real and deep with symbolism and irony. The emotions expressed in her art is so over powering. Most likely her best known piece depicts identical twin girls. Arbus was described as obsessed when it came to people slightly out of the rankings of ordinary. Her photo of twins, Cathleen (left) and Coleen (right) Wade, is today worth over $450,000. I believe the most obvious meaning behind this photo is that in society we are all carbon copies of one another, we all try to look alike, dress alike, act alike, however, we are all different and we cannot change that. 
Arbus' work was so unique and pure that it later inspired the 2004 classic, Fur: an imaginary portrait of Diane Arbus, starring the ever so popular Nicole Kidman. Kidman plays the role beautifully, expressing the same emotion Arbus capture so well. The movie also captures the same symbolism and deeper meaning Arbus so well captured. This happens to be one of my favorite movies, it is deffinately worth checking out.
