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Artist Rooms: Diane Arbus
Opens: 08/05/2009 Closes: 18/08/2009
National Museum Cardiff
Before choosing to end her own life, Diane Arbus immortalised the lives of many others through her photography. This exhibition offers a rare chance to stand in front of some of these iconic images, which often capture the freakish side of American society and transformed photography.
For more information visit:
http://www.nationalgalleries.org/collection/ar_tour/4:6690/6693
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http://www.museumwales.ac.uk/en/cardiff/visit/
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The Telegraph“Devoid of empathy and furtively, even uncomfortably absorbing...” It's not just her encounter though, it's also ours. We might feel unnerved, but it's not the subject, it's the extraordinary familiarity she has captured as the flash popped...
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Guardian“The works make up a vision of society like no other's, before or since...” The portraits make us aware of our own personal self-conscious self-doubts. The really unsettling fact remains that, when Arbus photographed more normal subjects, her lens revealed their underlying freakishness...
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Financial Times“Great portraiture by any standards...” A handful of magnificent portraits of women made within a few months of each other dominate an exhibition in Cardiff...
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