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Blue Ridge Way, North Carolina and Virginia, Paul Caponigro, 1965. Gelatin silver print, printed later, signed in pencil on the mount and the overmat.

Blue Ridge Way, North Carolina and Virginia, Paul Caponigro, 1965. Gelatin silver print, printed later, signed in pencil on the mount and the overmat.

Inside Flap, Weegee. Naked City. New York: [1945]. First edition, second large printing.

Inside Flap, Weegee. Naked City. New York: [1945]. First edition, second large printing.

The Predatory Lens, Diane Arbus: Humanist or Voyeur?

Diane Arbus killed herself, aged 48, on 26 July 1971. On the 40th anniversary of her death, it’s worth reconsidering her artistic legacy. Her work remains problematic for many viewers because she transgressed the traditional boundaries of portraiture, making pictures of circus and sideshow “freaks”, many of whom she formed lasting friendships with.

If Arbus undoubtedly felt at home among the outsiders she photographed, she also experienced a frisson of guilty pleasure when photographing them. ‘There’s some thrill in going to a sideshow,’ she once confessed of her nocturnal visits to the circus tents of Coney Island, where performers were still earning a living in the 1960s. ‘I felt a mixture of shame and awe.’”

George Caddy 1939

George Caddy 1939

William Klein, New York 54/55’(Paris: Atelier J.M. Bustamante-Bernard Saint-Genes, 1978, a total edition of 60) a portfolio of 12 photographs, each signed, editioned No. 4’ and annotated in pencil on the reverse, matted, titled and dated in pencil on the mat.

William Klein, New York 54/55’(Paris: Atelier J.M. Bustamante-Bernard Saint-Genes, 1978, a total edition of 60) a portfolio of 12 photographs, each signed, editioned No. 4’ and annotated in pencil on the reverse, matted, titled and dated in pencil on the mat.

NANNA HÄNNINEN - “The New Landscapes are taken from famous metropolises or buildings, factories, cemeteries, airports – mostly strategically important places involving a mixture of lights in the scenery and a long exposure so that they become almost like short movies. These urban landscapes are basically drawings of my body movements that can be seen on photographic material as rhythmical light lines where the subject and the scenery melt into a single image. The subject is still strongly presented, whereas the object – the scenery- is estranged and thus becomes easier to deal with– also safer than the actual place.”

NANNA HÄNNINEN - “The New Landscapes are taken from famous metropolises or buildings, factories, cemeteries, airports – mostly strategically important places involving a mixture of lights in the scenery and a long exposure so that they become almost like short movies. These urban landscapes are basically drawings of my body movements that can be seen on photographic material as rhythmical light lines where the subject and the scenery melt into a single image. The subject is still strongly presented, whereas the object – the scenery- is estranged and thus becomes easier to deal with– also safer than the actual place.”

Darren Lee Miller

Darren Lee Miller

A Leap into Personal Narrative: Celia Talbot Tobin On Alessandra Sanguinetti.

A Leap into Personal Narrative: Celia Talbot Tobin On Alessandra Sanguinetti.

Diane Arbus - “A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know...I always thought of photography as a naughty thing to do - that was one of my favorite things about it, and when I first did it, I felt very perverse.…The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.”A young man in curlers at home on West 20th Street, N.Y.C., 1966 gelatin silver print stamped ‘a diane arbus print’, signed, numbered ‘4642-1-12U-1114’ in ink by Doon Arbus, Administrator, and Estate copyright credit reproduction limitation stamps (on the verso) 9 1/8 x 8 5/8in. (23.6 x 22.4cm.)

Diane Arbus - “A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know...I always thought of photography as a naughty thing to do - that was one of my favorite things about it, and when I first did it, I felt very perverse.…The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.”

A young man in curlers at home on West 20th Street, N.Y.C., 1966 gelatin silver print stamped ‘a diane arbus print’, signed, numbered ‘4642-1-12U-1114’ in ink by Doon Arbus, Administrator, and Estate copyright credit reproduction limitation stamps (on the verso) 9 1/8 x 8 5/8in. (23.6 x 22.4cm.)

Susan Worsham, Marine, Hotel Near Airport, Richmond Virginia.

Susan Worsham, Marine, Hotel Near Airport, Richmond Virginia.

Susan Worsham, Destiny, Creeping Vine Virginia.

Susan Worsham, Destiny, Creeping Vine Virginia.

Photographer Corinne Day, who shot the iconic cover for The Face that launched Kate Moss’s career, has died at the age of 45. Guardian obit here. Tributes here and here.

Photographer Corinne Day, who shot the iconic cover for The Face that launched Kate Moss’s career, has died at the age of 45. Guardian obit here. Tributes here and here.

Ali Bosworth - Filmic and Nostalgic.

Ali Bosworth - Filmic and Nostalgic.

Brian Duffy, The man who shot the cover of David Bowie’s 1973 album ‘Aladdin Sane’ died this past weekend. Known as one of the “Black Trinity” along with David Bailey and Terence Donovan, the three redefined traditional fashion photography. Brian Duffy obituary and gallery from The Guardian U.K..

Brian Duffy, The man who shot the cover of David Bowie’s 1973 album ‘Aladdin Sane’ died this past weekend. Known as one of the “Black Trinity” along with David Bailey and Terence Donovan, the three redefined traditional fashion photography. Brian Duffy obituary and gallery from The Guardian U.K..

To take photographs means to recognize, simultaneously and within a fraction of a second, both the fact itself and the rigorous organization of visually perceived forms that give it meaning. It is putting one’s head, one’s eye and one’s heart on the same axis
Henri Cartier Bresson (Opening today at MoMA)