Diane Arbus (63 page)

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“I love what people say…”: Ibid.

249
“Photographing is not about…”: John Gossage to PB, interview, May 24,1981.

250
“Even though the water…”: Tina Fredericks to PB, interview, Oct. 23, 1979.

250
“they have secrets…”: Richard Lindner,
Vogue,
Aug. 15, 1967.

252
“She hated…”: Garry Winogrand to PB, interview, Nov. 10,1981.

253
“I suggested…”: Joseph Mitchell to PB, interview, May 9, 1980.

253
“we still hadn’t met…”: Ibid.

254
“electric with anxiety”: Larry Shainberg to PB, interview, Oct. 12, 1982.

255
“Imitation was not for her…”: Doon Arbus, “Diane Arbus, Photographer,”
MS Magazine,
Oct. 1972.

255
“She refused to speak to me…”: Peter Hujar to PB, phone interview, March 4, 1980.

255
“In 1967 she was trying out…”: Garry Winogrand to PB, interview, Nov. 10,1981.

255
“instantly attracted”: Peter Crookston to PB, interview. May 24, 1980.

256
“You have a lovely daughter…”: Ibid.

256
“I was awakened…”: Ibid.

257
“If you sit on the inside…”: Peter Crookston to PB, interview, June 1982.

257
“because he was so beautiful”: Peter Crookston to PB, interview, Dec. 14, 1982.

257
“And, yes, I believed Diane…”: Ibid.

258
“There was a curious improbability…”: Marvin Israel, “Diane Arbus,”
Infinity,
Nov. 1972.

258
“You were so gentle…,”: DA to Peter Crookston, letter, c. 1967.

258
“like most speed freaks did”: Paul Salstrom to PB, phone interview, July 1, 1981.

259
“We had no plans”: Paul Salstrom to PB, phone interview, July 1, 1981.

259
“a heavy-set woman…”: Ibid.

260
“She kept gushing…”: Clay Felker to PB, interview, Jan. 10, 1979.

261
“Silver was spacy…”: Andy Warhol and Pat Hackett,
POPism: The Warhol ‘60s
(Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1980), pp. 64-65.

262
“because I hadn’t been ashamed…”: Barbara Goldsmith to PB, interview, Dec. 1, 1979.

262
“He just gets you…”: Ibid.

262
“I’m not as mixed up…”: Ibid.

263
“we all got stoned on hash…”: Viva to PB, phone interview, Aug. 21, 1979.

263
“Diane rang the doorbell…”: Ibid.

264
“I made a terrible mistake…”: Clay Felker to PB, interview, Jan. 10, 1979.

264
“It is a cause célèbre”: DA to Peter Crookston, letter, c. 1968.

264
“watershed pictures…”: Tom Morgan to PB, interview, Sept. 6, 1979.

264
“Diane told me…”: Renée Sparkia to PB, phone interview, Aug. 2, 1978.

265
“The parents seem…”: Peter Crookston to PB, interview, June 1982.

265
“for what seemed like…”: Basha Poindexter to PB, interview, April 13, 1983.

265
“would shoot up…”: Sam Antupit to PB, interview, Jan. 11, 1979.

266
“I’m jealous of you, Shirley”: Shirley Fingerhood to PB, interview, Feb. 24, 1981.

267
“I wanted to buy her a new fridge…”: Judith Mortenson to PB, interview, May 1981.

267
“Doon might fall in love with Dick…”: Pat Peterson to PB, interview, Feb. 22, 1979.

268
“And when I think…”: Doon Arbus, “Diane Arbus, Photographer,”
MS Magazine,
Oct. 1972.

268
“And Diane interceded for me…”: May Eliot to PB, interview, Jan. 22, 1983.

268
“battered people for her to photograph”: Saul Leiter to PB, interview, May 18, 1981.

269
“Diane pulled the prints…”: Eisa Bulgari, “Steve Laurence Remembering Diane Arbus,”
Fire Island News Magazine,
June 1980.

269
“Can you catch hepatitis?”: Cheech McKensie to PB, interview, May 2, 1982.

269
“She looked wasted”: Peter Crookston to PB, interview, May 24, 1980.

269
“toxic hepatitis…”: Doctors’ Hospital Medical Records, July 18, 1968.

269
“My husband is taking…”: Irene Fay to PB, interview, June 21, 1981.

269
“Diane looked really awful…”: Loring Eutemay to PB, interview, Feb. 1979.

270
“I always thought she…”: Seymour Krim to PB, interview, May 14, 1981.

270
“She snapped me…”: Ibid.

271
“She’d obviously learned a lot from Weegee…”: Victor D’Amico to PB, interview, July 29, 1980.

271
“She told me how close…”: May Eliot to PB, interview, Jan. 22, 1983.

271
“because she never told me…”: Ibid.

272
“She offered…”: Jill Freedman to PB, interview, Jan. 1982.

272
“so humid I felt…”: Bill Jay,
Photographers Photographed,
Monograph (Smith: Utah, 1983), p. 32.

272
“She was small and slim…”: Ibid.

272
“Now we can talk about photography…”: Ibid.

273
“Diane ate nothing…”: Lee Witkin to PB, interview, Nov. 19, 1981.

273
“I couldn’t say why…”: Bevan Davies to PB, interview, Nov. 24, 1981.

273
“I’d never seen her before…”: Ibid.

274
“We never had any long discussions…”: Lee Witkin to PB, interview, Nov. 18, 1981.

274
“Diane and I often talked about France…”: John Putnam to PB, interview, July 20, 1980.

275
“aura of aloneness”: Ibid.

276
“The situation is both real…”: Ikko Narahara tapes of Diane Arbus Class 1970-71.

276
“no erotic pictures…”: Neil Selkirk to PB, interview, Oct. 12, 1982.

276
“It was of a couple…”: Harold Hayes to PB, interview, Aug. 18, 1978.

277
“a great many incorrect stones…”: Neil Selkirk to PB, interview, Oct. 12, 1982.

277
“photograph a host of shoppers…”: Carol Troy to PB, interview, June 10, 1981.

278
“I knew her brother…”: Studs Terkel to PB, interview, Nov. 13, 1980.

278
“but she kept…”: Ibid.

278
“My father was a kind of self-made man…”: DA to Studs Terkel, interview, Dec. 1969.

278
“I always had governesses…”: Ibid.

280
“How did the public experience…”: Ibid.

280
“I was aware…”: Ibid.

280
“I had never seen poverty…”: Ibid.

280
“incredible stories…”: Ibid.

280
“as well as Walker Evans…”: Gene Thornton, “Narrative Works—and Arbus,”
New York Times,
Aug. 31, 1980.

280
“You saw…”: DA to Studs Terkel, interview, Dec. 1969.

281
“She seemed to be…”: Garry Winogrand to PB, interview, Nov. 10, 1981.

281
“funny”: Shirley Fingerhood to PB, interview, Feb. 24, 1981.

282
“This Diane Arbus…”: Irving Mansfield to PB, phone interview, Dec. 20, 1978.

282
“It was seen all over the world…”: Ibid.

283
“Diane expected…”: Shirley Fingerhood to PB, interview, Feb. 24, 1981.

283
“We always flew…”: Margo Feiden to PB, interview, Jan. 26, 1982.

284
“then she chose Marvin.”: Lisette Model to PB, interview, Feb. 6, 1979.

284
“Marvin Israel introduced us…”: Nancy Grossman to PB, interview, May 27,1980.

287
“After Sarraute got so nervous…”: Dale McConathy to PB, interview, Nov. 14, 1979.

287
“Diane almost always…”: Barbara Brown to PB, phone interview, March 9, 1980.

288
“I hardly recognized her…”: Peter Crookston to PB, interview, Jan. 4, 1982.

288
“all my tears made it better…”: DA to Peter Crookston, letter.

288
“for terminally ill patients…”: Francis Wyndham to PB, letter, June 15, 1982.

289
“to spend the night…”: Ibid.

289
“until we saw…”: May Eliot to PB, interview, Jan. 22, 1983.

289
“What a lovely ring…”: Jane Eliot to PB, interview, April 21, 1979.

290
“There were no more freaks…”: John Putnam to PB, interview, July 17, 1980.

290
“as
all
artists are schizophrenic”: Lisette Model to PB, interview, Feb. 6, 1979.

291
“nothing about her life…”: A. D. Coleman, “The Mirror Is Broken,”
Village Voice,
Aug. 5, 1978.

291
“very very boring”: Peter Crookston to PB, interview, May 20, 1980.

291
“and without any prompting…”: Gail Sheehy to PB, interview, May 8, 1980.

291
“She blew everybody’s mind…”: Stephen Frank to PB, phone interview, May 26, 1981.

292
“It was Blow-Up time”: Chris von Wangenheim to PB, interview, Dec. 8,1980.

292
“I think Diane saw her shrink”: John Putnam to PB, July 20,1980.

293
“What no one realized…”: Calvin Tompkins,
Off the Wall: Robert Rauschenberg and the Art World of Our Time
(Penguin, 1980), p. 281.

294
“novel in progress,”
New York
Magazine, March 13, 1978, “The Strange Universe of Cosmos” by Tom Bentkowski.

294
“An ant farm…”: DA to Peter Crookston, letter.

294
“Every artist…”: Thalia Seltz to PB, phone interview, Dec. 1979.

294
“Everybody was into primal experience…”: David Gillison to PB, phone interview, Dec. 1979.

294
“We’d discuss work and life…”: Thalia Seltz to PB, phone interview, Dec. 1979.

295
“Diane was gentle…”: Al Squilaco to PB, interview, Aug. 1980.

296
“I was going to be on the cover”: Ti Grace Atkinson to PB, interview, June 20,1980.

296
“Suddenly Diane asked me…”: Ibid.

296
“The stories were heartbreaking”: Ibid.

297
“I felt Diane was defensive…”: Ibid.

297
“It was absolutely exhausting…”: Ibid.

297
“We both wanted a picture of me…”: Ibid.

298
“
everything was showing…
”: Ibid.

298
“She seemed to be drowning…”: Ibid.

298
“I’m a
photographer”:
John Putnam to PB, interview, July 20, 1980.

298
“Diane began with the file…”: Eugene Ferrera to PB, interview, April 1979.

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“A lot of people…”: Hiro to PB, interview. May 6, 1982.

300
“I had to read this review…”: Richard Avedon to Connie Goldman, interview on National Public Radio, March 31, 1977.

300
“I told her I thought Marvin could…”: T. Hartwell to PB, phone interview, Sept. 17, 1982.

300
“a glass dome and a swimming pool…”: DA to Peter Crookston, letter.

301
“I am still collecting things…”: DA, speech at American Society of Magazine Photographers when she accepted the Robert Levitt Award “for outstanding achievement,” Sept. 1970.

301
“She was already a myth…”: Susan Brockman to Anne Tucker in
The Woman’s Eye,
selections from the work of Gertrude Kasbier, Diane Arbus and others, edited and with an introduction by Anne Tucker (Knopf, 1973).

301
“You couldn’t forget those startling pictures…”: Mark Haven to PB, interview, July 22, 1982.

301
“Diane’s pictures appealed to the mind…”: Jerry Ulesmann to PB, phone interview, Sept. 1981.

301
“The room was overcrowded”: Mary Ellen Andrews to PB, interview, Dec. 1, 1978.

301
“Nobody’s going to love your pictures…”: Susan Brockman, interview on radio station WRVR, Fall 1972.

301
“The class was not simply about photography…”: Anne Tucker to PB, phone interview, Dec. 11, 1981.

302
“It was very significant…”: Neil Selkirk, interview on radio station WRVR, Fall 1972.

302
“Diane wanted us to tell…”: Anne Tucker to PB, phone interview, Dec 11, 1981

302
“I was walking up the aisle…”: Ibid.

302
“Diane was a little taken aback…”: Eva Rubinstein to PB, interview, Sept. 12, 1982.

303
“Okay—let’s do it right now…”: Diana Edkins to PB, interview, March 20, 1979.

304
“And Cerf presented his face…”: Suzanne Mantell to PB, interview, Dec. 5, 1978.

304
“like they had lightbulbs…”: Ikko Narahara, tapes of Diane Arbus Class 1970-71.

304
“an adventure”: Eva Rubinstein to PB, interview, Sept. 12, 1982.

304
“Choosing a project…”: Ibid.

304
“photograph something real…”: Suzanne Mantell to PB, interview, Dec. 5, 1978.

305
“I’ve never taken a picture…”: Mary Ellen Andrews to PB, interview, Dec. 1,1978.

305
“a photographer has to be…”: Mark Haven to PB, interview, July 22,1982.

305
“whom you get confused…”: Suzanne Mantell to PB, interview, Dec. 5, 1978.

305
“I can tell you a picture…”: Ibid.

305
“in great spirits”: Anne Tucker to PB, phone interview.

305
“It’s about live”: Peter Crookston to PB, interview, Dec. 1982.

306
“was extremely serious…”:
Life Library of Photography: The Art of Photography
—
Responding to the Subject,
p. 110.

306
“Diane was obviously very moved…”: T. Hartwell to PB, phone interview, Sept. 17, 1982.

307
“Brassai taught me something…”: Ikko Narahara tapes of Diane Arbus Class 1970-71.

307
“What is it?…”: Ruth Ansel to PB, interview, Aug. 1978.

309
“because Shelley didn’t seem…”: Thalia Seltz to PB, interview, c. 1979.

309
“easy jobs…”: Sam Antupit to PB, interview, Jan. 11, 1979.

309
“The press tent…”: DA to Peter Crookston letter.

310
“What did I write?”: Alex Eliot to PB, interview, July 20, 1980.