Portrait Photography

Diane Arbus
Diane Arbus is known for her portraits of people who live on the fringes of society, as wll as her ability to take capture ordinary people in extraordinary poses and settings. She is notorious for pushing the boundaries of "tasteful" portrait photography. She took the majority of her pictures in black and white. In 1946, with her husband, she opened a commercial photography business called Diane & Allan Arbus. Her husband was the photographer, while she was the art director. She quit the commercial photography business in 1955 and began to take pictures for magazines such as Esquire and The Sunday Times Magazine. In 1963 Diane was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for a project on "American rites, manners and customs."
An archive of her photographs can be found here