Diane Arbus: An Aperture Monograph

I think I first read about Diane Arbus (1923-1971), when already in England. As Frank van Riper indicates in his article, she indeed is often introduced as someone who documented "the lives of the freaks", with little else to go beyond that. Whilst it is possible to get too agreed with this image of Arbus, already her Aperture monograph has shown a complex artistic character through the numerous citations from Arbus's talks and interviews. The book has provided my personal quotations notepad with many valuable additions, some of which I gathered in the post Diane Arbus: "The Gap Between Intention and Effect". At the same time, studying the photos in the book and contemplating on the excerpts from her talks led to the lengthy philosophical meditation on the subject of human identities and language.