Diane was an American portrait photographer in the early 60's. she belived in capturing the truth about a person in a single frame and stripping away what they want you to see and to show what they dont what you to. she was known simply as 'the photographer of freaks'. as she only took photos of people out of the ordinary or who where not considered beautiful in soceity like dwarfs, giants, transvestites, nudists and circus performers or of people whose normality seems ugly. but she only classed they as unique and wanted to steal and exploit other people lives. but sadly in 1971 she committed suicide due to the fact she had very strong periods of depression. Arbus wrote in 1968 "I go up and down a lot," and her ex-husband noted that she had "violent changes of mood." On July 26, 1971, while living at Westbeth Artists Community in New York City, Arbus took her own life by ingesting barbiturates and slashing her wrists with a razor.Marvin Israel found her body in the bathtub two days later; she was 48 years old.
Richard Avedon was another portrait photographer, but instead of taking an interest in 'freaks' he took his angle on fashin portrait photography. his aim was to take all the control from the person in front of the camera and give it all to the camera itself. and to make the famous look divine and perfect. they say that Avedon's photography helped define America's image of style, beauty and culture.
Another amazing portrait photographer was Larry clark. his angle on his portrait photography was from his neighbourhood. he was know as the kid with the camera. he would onlky take pictures of his 'tribe' so to speak, when they would go to drug houses and orgys. but this was the world he was apart of and he kept and image diary of his life on his camera. he took it everywhere he went and he would always capture the dirty, girtty and nasty images he could see.
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