Diane Arbus

In your posts you will need to discuss  the journey that Portraiture has taken over its' history. For example the movement from Rich and Powerful people having expensive portraits made for them to the works of Portraiture photographers depicting the inner conflicts and catching their subjects in moments when they are least prepared. 

Diane Arbus unlike other artists took photographs of people that were out of the extraordinary  different but still human. The photographs consisted of dwarfs, giants, transgenders + even nudists. Her portraits of photography consisted of people looking normal but there normality contained of deep feeling and the people felt ugly. People would often find Diane Arbus's photography harsh or that she really wanted to see sadness in the person she was taking shots of, the truth was Diane wanted the person she was taking shots of to show there true feeling and the depth of there current situation. When Diane Arbus did her photography shots she wanted to represent the people she was taking shots of in a different way to any other photographer and that was to take pictures showing there flaws and not editing the pictures to make them look "perfect"

Arbus grew up in a Jewish family who were lucky enough to be wealthy. Although the family were lucky to be wealthy Arbus grew up in "The Great Depression" meaning that Arbus would feel the effects from the depression.

The picture I have used to demonstrate Diane Arbus's photography work is a picture of a young girl who grew up in a well mannered family but if you look at the picture Arbus has made the picture as the girl looking very depressed looking, you can see that the girl in the picture looks very emotionally drained. Diane really wanted her pictures to look how the person felt, not telling them what to do in a way which the person would feel uncomfortable or fake.