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Diane Arbus (Matthaei family portraits)
An artistic youth, she learned photography from her husband, actor Allan Arbus. Together, they found success with fashion work, but Diane soon branched out on her own.
Diane spent a lot of time with people to get enough images so she had enough to make an album. She took photos of families and their children. She took pictures of what she liked, she liked to capture natural looks and she'd put her own story behind the look. She went round a families house on Christmas but the photos she had taken of the girl made it look upset and depressing, where as they wanted them to be happy. If she thought someone looked upset she would want to capture pictures of them looking upset or if they looked happy they would be happy whether they liked it or not.

 This is a photo of when she done photo shoots of  the"Matthaei family" and she took a few photos of this girl looking quite down and depressed. She liked the look of these photos because she could see more about this person but at the same time you don't really know anything about them. She doesn't really use lighting, she uses natural lighting because she normally went out and about to take photos. She told the person/people she was taking their photo but she talked quite quietly.

  This photo is quite ironic because on of the twins looks happy but the other doesn't. The use of the white wall behind them is quite good because it makes the girls stand out a bit more then they would if they were in front of a load of walking people. She told the girls she was taking their photo.   


This photo is good because you can see he's happy but he's not really smiling. One of his straps is hanging down and he's out and about maybe playing.