Diane Arbus: An Aperture Monograph

“… In her pictures nothing is improvised or merely ‘caught.’ The subjects face the camera with interest and patience. They are fully aware of the picture-making process. They collaborate. It is this element of participation, this suggestion of a dialogue between the subject and the photographer, that gives these pictures their great dignity. And it is their dignity that is, I think, the source of their power. Hilton Kramer, The New York Times”