#portrait of diane

[artthatgivesmefeelings]

Alexandre Cabanel (French, 1823-1889) Portrait de Diane, n.d.

[thinkingimages]

DIANE ARBUS (1923-1971), Young girl after the Puerto Rican parade, N.Y.C. 1963

[semioticapocalypse]

Diane Arbus. A young family in Brooklyn going for a Sunday outing. New York. 1966

I Am Collective Memories   •    Follow me, — says Visual Ratatosk

[the-cricket-chirps]

Diane Arbus

Self-portrait, pregnant, N.Y.C.

1945

[leithvit]

He is the best guy around✨️

Carried the show

[bitter69uk]

Born seventy-one years ago today: fierce American photographer Nan Goldin (née Nancy Goldin, 12 September 1953). Think of her as the bruised, worldly-wise Marianne Faithfull of modern art (or as Variety puts it, “the postpunk Diane Arbus”). I revere Goldin’s hard-edged and unflinching confessional photography and worshipfully attend every retrospective in London. Goldin’s life and work ricochets between London, Berlin and Paris but she will always be synonymous with 70s and 80s New York bohemia. Many years ago, I was on holiday in Paris and walked past Goldin on the street talking to a tall, glamorous blonde transgender friend. Goldin’s shock of frizzy red hair and blunt tough cookie chain-smoker rasp were instantly unmistakable. It was far more dazzling than encountering any movie star! Laura Poitras’ lacerating Oscar-nominated 2022 documentary All the Beauty and the Bloodshed powerfully weaves together Goldin’s art, activism and history of personal trauma and is compulsory viewing. Pictured: early self-portrait “Nan in the Bathroom With Roommate In Boston.”

[misscromwellsmonocle]

Diane (2023) by Nick Alm

[jacquesdemys]

Diane von Fürstenberg photographed by Andy Warhol, c. 1973

[elixir]

Andy Warhol’s Polaroids

With the invention of the [Polaroid]Big Shot, Warhol finally had the tool he needed to combine his two great loves, celebrity and mass-produced art, and turn them into a money-making machine. Once he developed his process of using the Polaroids to create silk-screened portraits, he immediately embarked on the creation of the artworks that he has become most famous for.

“Andy would have a table stacked with boxes of Polaroids and a couple Big Shot cameras. He would shoot and shoot, saying things like, “Oh! That looks so greeeeaaat.” An assistant would lay the images out on the table. Many dozens would be shot and they would pick one and send it to the screen maker. The sittings back then in the early 1980s were $25,000 each. They were backlogged with clients for months.” – Mark Sink

Detailed here.

[semioticapocalypse]

Diane Arbus. Kenneth Noland and Stephanie Gordon. New York. 1966

I Am Collective Memories   •    Follow me, — says Visual Ratatosk

[the-cricket-chirps]

Diane Arbus

Seated female impersonator in an open kimono, Hempstead, L.I.

1959

[doylewesleywalls]

© Doyle Wesley Walls -- Diane, with High Heels on Her Feet and Something on Her Mind

[pavel-1975]

Diane Kruger by Patrick Demarchelier, 1994

[artthatgivesmefeelings]

François-Hubert Drouais (French, 1727–1775) So-called Portrait of Diane Louise Augustine de Polignac (1746-1818), sister-in-law of Yolande de Polastron, c.1780-95 Collection Gramont

[les-larmes-d-eros]

Photo par Diane Arbus.

🇨🇵 Sur la photo centrale c'est Diane Arbus elle même qui a pris place sur les genoux de l'homme.

🇬🇧 On the middle photograph, this is Diane Arbus herself on the man's knees.

[photography-obsession]

Diane Arbus

Young Man in Curlers