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Visual Arts
Diane Arbus, A Jewish giant at home with his parents in the Bronx, N.Y. (1970), detail.
She has been called one of the most important photographers of the 20th century; she has also been dubbed the photographer of freaks.
A new exhibition at the National Gallery of Australia (NGA) takes a look at the vintage prints of American photographer Diane Arbus, couched in conversation with her contemporaries and not so contemporaries – artists who have been influenced more recently by her iconic portraits.
Gina Fairley is ArtsHub's Senior Contributor, after 12 years in the role as National Visual Arts Editor. She has worked for extended periods in America and Southeast Asia, as gallerist, arts administrator and regional contributing editor for a number of magazines, including Hong Kong based Asian Art News and World Sculpture News. She is an Art Tour leader for the AGNSW Members, and lectures regularly on the state of the arts. She is based in Mittagong, regional NSW.
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