Diane Arbus (64 page)

310
“Not childhood…”: Alex Eliot,
Zen Edge
(Seabury Press, 1979), p. 67.

311
“Arbus was a central and crucial figure…”: Walter Hopps to PB, phone interview, July 8, 1981.

311
“Her name was rapidly acquiring…”: Hilton Kramer,
New York Times,
Aug. 5, 1972.

312
“a Wall Street banker type…”: Peter Beard to PB, interview, Nov. 22, 1982.

312
“Once I dreamed…”:
Art News,
May 1971.

313
“There are two kinds of nudist camps”: Jerry Leibling to PB, phone interview, Aug. 1981.

313
“Everything was confrontational…”: Ibid.

314
“a rosepetal-soft…”: Germaine Greer to PB, interview, Oct. 25, 1979.

315
“I said I would buy…”: Tina Fredericks to PB, interview, June 1980.

315
“She made me put on…”: Devon Fredericks to PB, interview, June 1980.

316
“I didn’t believe her…”: Larry Shainberg to PB, interview, Sept. 29, 1982.

316
“I’d fallen in love with the darkroom…”: Marge Neikrug to PB, interview, Dec. 3, 1981.

316
“Mommy, Mommy…”: Gertrude Nemerov to PB, interview, July 22, 1978.

316
“Can’t you find anyone…”: John Gossage to PB, interview, May 24, 1981.

317
“The beautiful glass box…”: Lee Witkin to PB, interview, Nov. 17,1981.

317
“In poetry the art itself…”: Howard Nemerov to PB, interview, July 20, 1978.

318
“Howard Nemerov is a minor poet…”: Bernard Malamud to PB, interview, March 5,1980.

318
“Diane seemed in a very good mood…”: Howard Nemerov to PB, interview, July 20, 1978.

318
“she was terribly alone…”: Ibid.

318
“She arrived Sunday afternoon…”: Nancy Grossman to PB, interview, March 27, 1980.

320
“Suddenly, for no reason…”: Shirley Clarke to PB, phone interview, Sept. 1980.

320
“She was carrying a flag…”: Walter Silver to PB, interview, Oct. 23, 1981.

320
“acute barbiturate poisoning”: Dr. Michael Baden to PB, interview, May 14, 1979.

321
“Oh, I wish I could be an artist like Diane!”: Frederick Eberstadt to PB, interview, Feb. 5, 1979.

322
“To D—Dead by Her Own Hand”:
The Collected Poems of Howard Nemerov
(University of Chicago Press, 1977), p. 431.

Note: Information about Arbus’ death was provided by A. D. Coleman, “The Mirror Is Broken,”
Village Voice,
Aug. 5, 1971;
New York Times
death notice, Aug 1, 1971;
Notable American Women,
ed. Barbara Sicherman and Carol Green (Harvard University Press, 1980), p. 30. Assistance and information was also provided by Howard Nemerov, David Gilliam, Renée Sparkia, John Putnam, Linda Amster, Peter Cott, and Larry Shainberg.

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Abbott, Berenice,
67
,
129
,
209
,
231

Abel, Lionel,
91

Abrahams, Billy,
44

Abstract Expressionism,
100
,
144-5

Adams, Ansel,
126
,
128
n.

Adelman, Bob,
224
,
237

Adler, Felix,
16

Adler, Renata,
294

Agee, James,
76
,
209

Aisen, Kathy,
207

Albers, Joseph,
169

Alberto Alberta,
166

Alice in Wonderland
(Carroll),
15
,
29-30
,
219

Amazing Randi,
165
,
167-8

American Legion,
275

Americans, The
(Frank),
141
,
143
,
145
,
247

American Society of Magazine Photographers,
274
,
301

Amram, David,
144

Andrews, Mary Ellen,
301
,
303

Angleton, James,
44

Ansel, Ruth,
203
,
219
,
243
,
307
,
309
,
321

Antonio, Emile de,
140
,
158
,
161-3
,
166
,
183
,
202
,
205
,
207
,
222-3
,
242
,
246
,
247

Antupit, Sam,
265
,
309

Aperture
,
127
,
232

Apollo Theater,
162
,
168
,
238

Arbus, Allan,
33-4
,
38
,
39-40
,
43-6
; acting career of,
158
,
281
,
310
; in acting class,
151-2
; clarinet playing by,
34
,
55
,
68
,
74
,
78
,
108
,
116
,
150
; continues to support Diane after separation,
160
,
264
,
281
; at Diane’s funeral,
321
; dreams of becoming an actor,
33-4
,
68
,
74
,
116
; as fashion photographer,
see
Arbus studio; marriage of Diane and,
see
Arbus, Diane; marriage of Mariclare Costello and,
245
,
281
,
284
; meets Benny Goodman,
151
; in mime class,
121
,
136
; moves to California,
281
; painting of, by Diane,
40
,
42
; in photographers’ unit, in World War II,
57
,
58
; photographic technique of,
115
,
270
; photographs of Diane by,
40
,
67
,
103
; in
Pull My Daisy
,
144

Arbus, Amy: birth of,
106-7
; childhood of,
135
,
139
,
150
,
159-60
,
164
,
165
,
167
,
202
,
217
,
219
,
223
; in Jamaica,
244
,
245
; as photographer,
167
; photographs of,
116
,
132
,
146-7
,
219
; teen-age years of,
267
,
275
,
295
,
302
,
310
,
313
,
316
,
321

Arbus, Bertha,
8
,
33
,
71

Arbus, Diane

CHILDHOOD AND ADOLESCENCE
artistic talent,
16
,
23
,
31-3
,
42
,
50
,
51
,
130
,
271
; birth,
9
; depressions,
48
,
51-2
; dress and appearance,
39
; education,
13
,
16-17
,
23-4
,
29-32
,
40
,
49-52
,
130
,
267
; favorite books,
15
,
29-30
,
219
; fearfulness,
17
,
23
,
24
; feelings of separateness,
12
,
23
; French nanny,
9-10
,
12
,
17
,
274
,
287
,
314
; friendship with Phyllis Carton,
see
Carton, Phyllis; friendships and cliques,
24
,
28
,
31
,
34
,
49
; homes and family life,
9-10
,
17-19
,
23
,
50
; as “Jewish princess,”
19-20
; in love with Allan Arbus,
34-5
,
38-40
,
43-6
,
49-51
; relationship with brother,
12-14
,
15-16
,
22
,
24
,
39
,
45
; relationship with Alex Eliot,
41-8
,
51
,
53
,
54
; relationship with father,
12
,
16-17
,
27
,
32-3
,
50-1
,
278
; relationship with mother,
9
,
10-11
,
15
,
25
,
35-8
,
43
,
54
; relationship with sister,
15-16
,
23
; Russeks, family involvement with,
11
,
33
,
38
,
45-6
; sense of unreality,
20
,
30
,
279
; sexuality,
34-5
,
50
; summer experiences,
12-13
,
27-8
,
40-4
,
314
; teen-age autobiography,
9
,
17
,
24
,
27
,
28
,
49
; wedding,
53-4

MARRIED LIFE
apartments and studios,
55
,
68
,
73
,
107
,
135
,
157-8
; daughter (Amy), birth of,
106-7
; daughter (Doon), birth and infancy of,
59
,
61
,
62-3
; daughters (Doon and Amy), relationship with,
82
,
102-3
,
135-6
,
149
; depressions,
74
,
99
,
117-18
,
120
,
122
; dress and appearance,
62
,
86
,
139
; family income,
56
,
60
,
71
,
86
,
89
; friendship with Tina Fredericks,
see
Fredericks, Tina; friendship with Cheech McKensie,
see
McKensie, Cheech; goddaughter,
see
Eliot, May; homemaking, attitude toward,
56
,
81-2
,
101
,
122
,
133
,
147-8
; interest in art and literature,
74
,
78
,
100
; interest in writing,
89
,
137
; lack of self-confidence,
75
; living arrangements during World War II,
57-60
; marital relationship,
73-4
,
93-4
,
98
,
102
,
147
,
152-4
; Nemerov family gatherings,
86-8
,
92-3
,
108
,
118
; parties and social activities,
84-5
,
100
,
111-12
,
138-9
,
145-6
,
150
,
158
; relationship with brother,
see
Nemerov, Howard; relationship with Alex and Anne Eliot,
55-6
,
59
,
61
,
68
,
75-6
,
81-5
,
96
; relationship with Alex and Jane Eliot,
97-9
,
100
,
103-7
,
112
,
114
,
121-2
,
150-1
; relationship with father,
86
,
89
,
103
,
138
; relationship with mother,
58
,
61
,
106
,
118
,
131
,
159
; relationship with sister,
58-9
,
88-9
,
93-4
,
117
,
118
,
119
; sexuality,
59
,
94
,
147
; summer homes,
81
,
92
,
99
,
146
; travels in Europe,
103-6

PERSONAL LIFE, AFTER 1959
apartment at Charles Street,
158
; apartment at East 10th Street,
267
; apartment at Westbeth,
293-5
,
309
,
320-1
; danger and risk-taking, attitude toward,
218
,
257
; daughters (Doon and Amy), relationship with,
159-60
,
173
,
186
,
187
,
202
,
216
,
223
,
256
,
267-8
; depressions,
185
,
211
,
249-50
,
268
,
286
,
290
,
311
,
312
,
318-19
; dress and appearance,
173
,
210
,
234
,
265
,
288
; estrangement and separation from Allan Arbus,
157-9
,
171
,
180
,
185
,
201-3
; fears, overcoming of,
131
,
205
,
256
; forty-fifth birthday,
265
; friendship with Richard Avedon,
see
Avedon, Richard; friendship with Marvin Israel,
see
Israel, Marvin; friendship with Lisette Model,
see
Model, Lisette; illness (hepatitis),
239
,
268
,
269
,
281
,
283
; increasing loneliness,
275
; interest in literature,
178
,
196-7
,
211
,
274
; interest in sexual role changes and pornography,
250
; love of flying,
283
; memories of childhood,
222
,
278-9
; money problems,
159-60
,
236
,
258
,
281
; photographs taken of,
246
,
249
,
252
,
293
,
302-3
,
313
; relationship with Allan, after separation,
244
,
245
,
269
,
271
,
281
,
283
,
284
,
286-7
,
310
; relationship with brother,
see
Nemerov, Howard; relationship with Alex and Jane Eliot,
203
,
246
,
268
,
289-90
,
310
; relationship with father,
187-8
,
212-15
; relationship with mother,
184
,
185-6
,
242
,
265
,
279
,
316
,
318
; relationship with sister,
185
,
201
,
213
,
215
; sexual relationships,
205-7
,
256-7
,
290-1
,
319
; suicide, attitude toward,
200
,
219-20
,
309
,
315-16
; telephone conversations with friends,
275
,
310
,
316
; Terkel interview,
277-80
; therapy, for depression,
286
,
292
,
293
,
311