Seven Powerful Snapshots of Life Lived on the Fringes of Society
In her oft-referenced 1977 book On Photography,  a collection of essays deconstructing the political and cultural relevance of the photographic medium, Susan Sontag describes Diane Arbus’ raw, unflinching gaze as “based on distance, on privilege, on a feeling that what the viewer is asked to look at is really other”. Sure enough, Arbus was obsessed by otherness – she spent her life documenting the outcast, the misfits and the rejected on the fringes of society. Yet her jarring,…

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February 27, 2018 at 06:51PM
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