Feeling My Age

Two Young Men On A Bench In Washington Square Park by Diane Arbus

Reblogged from Ulrich Baer’s Daglobalist 6 February 2011:
In the 1960s Diane Arbus embarks on a career as photographer on the American East Coast. The child of privileged New York City parents Arbus seeks to show how “the other half lives.” In her world this other half comprised the “freaks” of society who just did not belong because they were too poor, too different from what passed for normal, too tall, too short, too queer and too done-up, too tattered or too gaudy, too colored or too pale… Of course it was not the first time that they were visible. But particularly in her work for magazines such as Esquire Arbus transformed these people from being visible into seen.
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