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Quote from Episode 306: Time Of The Apes

Servo
Who took these photos anyway, Diane Arbus?

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Added 2004-12-11 @ 02:38:22 PM, currently rated 0/5 (0 votes)

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Diane Arbus is known for her photography of "outsiders" and the "physically unusual": twins, midgets, transvestites, among others.

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Also of note is the fact that most of these photos' subjects were looking directly, unflinchingly, at the viewer (not unlike the apes in the series of photos Servo comments on). Arbus's photos were generally considered to be a new and important style of documentary photography.

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