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burnedshoes:

© Diane Arbus

#1: Child with a toy hand grenade in Central Park, N.Y.C., 1962
#2: Identical twins, Roselle, N.J., 1967

“You see someone on the street and essentially what you notice about them is the flaw. It’s just extraordinary that we should have been given these peculiarities. And, not content with what we were given, we create a whole other set. Our whole guise is like giving a sign to the world to think of us in a certain way but there’s a point between what you want people to know about you and what you can’t help people knowing about you. And that has to do with what I’ve always called the gap between intention and effect. I mean if you scrutinize reality closely enough, if in some way you really, really get to it, it becomes fantastic.” (Diane Arbus)

Exhibition: ‘Diane Arbus’ at Jeu de Paume, Paris (Oct. 18, 2011 – Feb. 5, 2012)

(thanks to ArtBlart)

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