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Diane Arbus (1923-71)
Teenage Couple on Hudson Street, New York. Photographed by Diane Arbus.
Biography
Born Diane Nemerov in New York City to affluent Jewish parents who owned Russek's department store, she enjoyed a life of relative privilege with servants, nannies and a top notch education.
In 1941, at the age of 18, she married her childhood sweetheart Allan Arbus (shortly to become a photographer in the US Army Signal Corps), with whom she had two daughters, Doon and Amy.
Encouraged by her husband, Arbus took up photography.
The couple also got to know the ageing Alfred Stieglitz (1864-1946) at whose gallery they learned about other camera artists such as the Civil War photographers Mathew Brady (1823-96) and Timothy O'Sullivan (1840-82); pictorialists like Paul Strand (1890-1976) and Bill Brandt (1904-1983); and the great Parisian chronicler Eugene Atget (1857-1927).
Later, during the war, David Nemerov, Diane's father hired her to take promotional photographs for