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Arbus had the knack of getting you to see the world through her eyes - and she was a bit of a strange lady.
She was attracted to the 'weird' - midgets, circus performers, trans-sexuals and such - because she felt herself to be, like them, on the edge of 'normal' society. Her sense of 'belonging' comes out in the pictures of this group because she makes them appear normal.
It is very easy to photograph a dwarf, for example, and make them look odd because, in one sense, they are: they are not commonplace. But Arbus photographed them in a way that made them look perfectly normal. Almost as if we are the weird and unusual ones.
And indeed when she photographed so-called normal people, they came out looking strange, disturbed, odd.
In short her pictures tended to reverse our accepted view of the world. The outsiders are the norm and we are the outsiders.
And she seemed to be able to do it without any of her images looking contrived.
Lux is a bit of a one note wonder.
When you first see her images they do indeed appear surreal. But as you see more and more and the novelty wears off they start to all look the same. You get the strong feeling that the pictures she takes in ten years time will be indistinguishable from what she does now. Her work isn't going anywhere.
The sense of strangeness in her pictures is largely due to 'Shop. She pastes figures into backgrounds, removes most of the shadows, plays with the colour. They look odd because they are not real.
She is a photographer it is easy to get bored with. She has no-where near the subject range of Arbus - and the slickness produced by Photoshopping removes all sense of immediacy.
She was attracted to the 'weird' - midgets, circus performers, trans-sexuals and such - because she felt herself to be, like them, on the edge of 'normal' society. Her sense of 'belonging' comes out in the pictures of this group because she makes them appear normal.
It is very easy to photograph a dwarf, for example, and make them look odd because, in one sense, they are: they are not commonplace. But Arbus photographed them in a way that made them look perfectly normal. Almost as if we are the weird and unusual ones.
And indeed when she photographed so-called normal people, they came out looking strange, disturbed, odd.
In short her pictures tended to reverse our accepted view of the world. The outsiders are the norm and we are the outsiders.
And she seemed to be able to do it without any of her images looking contrived.
Lux is a bit of a one note wonder.
When you first see her images they do indeed appear surreal. But as you see more and more and the novelty wears off they start to all look the same. You get the strong feeling that the pictures she takes in ten years time will be indistinguishable from what she does now. Her work isn't going anywhere.
The sense of strangeness in her pictures is largely due to 'Shop. She pastes figures into backgrounds, removes most of the shadows, plays with the colour. They look odd because they are not real.
She is a photographer it is easy to get bored with. She has no-where near the subject range of Arbus - and the slickness produced by Photoshopping removes all sense of immediacy.