Artist field note

Diane Arbus

The ordinary becomes difficult to categorize.

Appears inPhotography
A Jewish Giant at Home with His Parents in the Bronx, N.Y. by Diane Arbus
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A Jewish Giant at Home with His Parents in the Bronx, N.Y.

1970

Scale makes family intimacy physically strange without cancelling its tenderness.

The five in one idea

Arbus made the categories we use for other people feel unstable - including the category called normal.