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Diane Arbus Analysis
Diane Arbus is a photographer from New York City. Between the 1950s and 1960s she starts photograph people on the street. Diane works for a well known fashion magazines called Vogue magazine. Diane had a attraction to photograph young children and as result of that she created her own collection. One of the picture that called my attention was a photo of little girl that looked like she was getting out of school. Arbus started talking pictures on the street even without people permission in order for her to photograph people first impression. Most of her works used to be black and white portraits. The photo talking by Diane Arbus, taken in 1957, we can appreciate a girl with a pointy hood and white schoolbag at the curb in New York City.

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