Talk:Diane Arbus/Archives/2013

Dee-ann???

This is the only place I have ever seen her name referenced as being pronounced "Dee-Ann" .... can anyone provide any evidence to back this up? It's odd to me that no biography I have seen agrees with this. I most certainly do not know for sure but for someone so famous to be almost exclusively called by the wrong pronunciation with only Wiki knowing the correct......

Yes, her name is pronounced Dee-ann. And she never taught at Hampshire College, but did teach at Cooper Union and RISD. Hampshire admitted its first students in 1970.

I need to know where the emphasis of that pronunciation is. It could be clarified if Diane sounds like "DEE-ann" or "dee-ANN" (french way). --Lux 07:29, 18 January 2007 (UTC)

It references the pronunciation (dee-ANN) in the movie Fur with Nicole Kidman.

• WHich is fiction, of course. --jpgordon^∇∆∇∆ 01:34, 6 August 2007 (UTC)

Indeed, this is the only place I have seen (or heard) that pronunciation as well. I had assumed that whoever wrote that got it from the movie Fur. I asked my former photography instructor about it and he said something to the effect of "Nonsense! It's DIE-AN." Although he is a very knowledgeable man, many knowledgeable people garner most of their information from books, which generally don't provide pronunciations. So I'm skeptical of the article, but I still don't know.

It is mentioned in Bosworth's biography that it is pronounced Dee-Ann. It says she was named after a character in a movie called Seventh Heaven and it is pronounced that way in the play. It's in the beginning of chapter 2 of her biography by Bosworth. I also saw a video about Diane in which her daughter, Doon, pronounced it Dee-Ann as well. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 130.85.193.88 (talk) 17:05, 17 October 2007 (UTC)

And yes, in fact, she did teach at Hampshire. She was the co-instructor of a photography class in the summer of 1971.

Why did she kill herselt?

It doesn't give a reason. AJUK ^Talk!! 21:13, 16 September 2007 (UTC) I just saw the movie Fur and read that she commited suicide. Very sad. I wonder why she did that? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 96.229.91.107 (talk) 04:46, 19 December 2007 (UTC)

Rolleiflex

I knew Diane Arbus and I often repaired her cameras. I never saw her use a Rollei. I repaired several Mamiyaflex C-3/33/330s for her. I'm not saying she didn't use a Rollei, just that I never saw her with one.

TRIKER1 (talk) 21:05, 14 March 2008 (UTC)

She used both Rolleis and Mamiyas, and previously used 35mm. In the book "Revelations" there are extensive excerpts from her diary about her thoughts on her new Mamiya. Deepcloud (talk) 05:53, 18 April 2009 (UTC)

Unseen work

I formed the impression some time ago that the body of work that we see is one that has been shaped and - not to put too fine a point on it - censored, presumably by a member or members of her family. It's a matter of conjecture to me whether other work still exists or has been destroyed. BTLizard (talk) 11:28, 19 March 2008 (UTC)

• Have you been to the "Revelations" exhibition? It contained a lot of images that hadn't been previously shown to the public. I'm curious, though; what led you to this impression? --jpgordon^∇∆∇∆ 16:53, 19 March 2008 (UTC)

Is that the exhibition that came to London a couple of years back? Otherwise, no. What led me to the impression, though, was Patricia Bosworth's book, which as I recall suggests that she photographed themes (eg S&M) that don't appear in any publications I've seen. BTLizard (talk) 14:32, 20 March 2008 (UTC)

Ah. Yeah, that wouldn't surprise me in the least. --jpgordon^∇∆∇∆ 16:32, 20 March 2008 (UTC)

SNFU

SNFU didn't exactly use the Arbus photograph; the cover of their first disc features an exact dot-by-dot pointillist style tracing of the Arbus photograph, rather than the photograph itself. They did this naively thinking that this would free them from any copyright infringement trouble.

"We were totally naive. We found the picture in the library and used it. Jello [Biafra] contacted us and told us Crucifux almost got sued and Sex Gang Children also wanted to use some Arbus material and were told noway. So we made adjustments. Pretty negligent."

- SNFU guitarist Marc Belke, from http://www.punkhistorycanada.ca/gallery/show.php?id=1411&album_id=17

[link shows Arbus photograph rather than album cover]Hairhorn (talk) 02:40, 6 January 2009 (UTC)

Intentional fragment?

Was this edit an attempt to deliberately create an "artistic fragment"? Grammatically, it makes no sense to me; I'd correct it but I know how sensitive some of the Wiki-art community are about their work, and I'd not want to step on any toes. 98.71.219.134 (talk) 21:20, 16 December 2009 (UTC)

I added - the according to the met - in response to someone's request, however I will remove it...Modernist (talk) 22:03, 16 December 2009 (UTC)

Kudos for your excellent edit and your keen sense of grammar. The opening line of the article now reads as crisp and clear as I suspect Diane would have demanded. Good show. 98.71.219.134 (talk) 02:50, 18 December 2009 (UTC)