Arbus

American  

[ahr-buhs] / ˈɑr bəs /

noun

1. Diane, 1923–71, U.S. photographer (sister of Howard Nemerov).

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Arbus British  

/ ˈɑːbəs /

noun

1. Diane, original name Diane Nemerov . 1923–71, US photographer, noted esp for her portraits of vagrants, dwarfs, transvestites, etc

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Example Sentences

Over 50 years later, David Zwirner’s Los Angeles gallery will revisit the 1972 Diane Arbus retrospective that debuted at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

From Los Angeles Times

“Cataclysm” will feature 113 of Arbus’ genre-defying photographs, ranging from “Tattooed man at a carnival” to “A very young baby,” as well as meditate on the popularity and critical uproar of the original exhibition.

From Los Angeles Times

It features historic moments from the civil rights movement to Aids activism, and includes works by Robert Mapplethorpe, Cindy Sherman, William Eggleston, Diane Arbus, Ai Weiwei and others.

From BBC

“The anonymous artist seems to have intuitively understood,” writes the art historian James Meyer, referring to the painting in his 2022 essay “The Double: Identity and Difference in Art Since 1900,” “some four and a half centuries before Seydou Keïta and Diane Arbus trained their cameras on twins in matching dress that a resemblance so extreme incites a perception of unlikeness, of difference, discernible in the subtle variations in the young women’s expressions, the shapes of their noses and eyelids, the divergent hues of their eyes.”

From New York Times

The museum said Tuesday that the exhibition, titled “Fragile Beauty,” will include 300 images by more than 140 photographers, including Diane Arbus, Cindy Sherman, Robert Mapplethorpe, William Eggleston, Zanele Muholi and Ai Weiwei.

From Seattle Times