I would like to know, what makes Diane Arbus' photographs so interesting? i love her work. She is one of the main motivators for me to go out and pursue what I love. I admire her as an artist and as a woman. But I don't understand what it is about her work that I just absolutely love. I look at her work and I think about how interesting it is and how personal and intimate it is, and I wonder how I can capture the same thing. How can I create photographs that are so simple yet intriguing. For example, the photo of the Tattoo Man is simple, flattened, up close and in the viewers' faces, yet I get sucked into the photograph and can look at it for hours. Her lighting technique is now taught to be "pedestrian" but I feel that it adds to the bluntness of her work. There are not many dimension created through depth of field or lighting, but I still feel like there is dimension to the subject matter. The eyes are what capture me and I feel like they will never let me go. I want to create something that intriguing, that beautiful, that consuming, and that simple. Please go and be consumed by the simplicity that is Diane Arbus. Happy Shooting.
~*~Hayley~*~
I really like her work too. (: Maybe it's not so much about the photograph itself but the personality of the person. Sometimes that's the art, not the tangible piece of paper.
ReplyDeleteI strongly think that what make this photos powerful is who she choose to photograph. They are not simply regular people, they always have a background or simply they have something striking.
ReplyDeleteThe look of Tattoo Man's eyes is simply so clear that get you there for hours.