Diane Arbus born on March 14, 1923 in New York City committed suicide on July 26, 1971

one of the most distinguished American photographers of the 20th century

Known for… her square black & white portraits of the ordinary & unconventional people of New York Identical Twins, Roselle, N.J. 1967

“I really believe there are things nobody would see if I didn't photograph them”. Diane Arbus Read more at

She showed the world how unique and beautiful New Yorkers were in the 1950s & '60s Puerto Rican woman with beauty mark, NYC (1965)

A Young Brooklyn Family Going for a Sunday Outing, N.Y.C. 1966

Teenage Couple on Hudson Street, N.Y.C., 1963

Triplets in Their Bedroom, N.J. 1963

Child with a Toy Hand Grenade in Central Park, New York City (1962)

A Very Young Baby, N.Y.C. 1968

Boy with a straw hat waiting to march in a pro-war parade, N.Y.C. 1967

Two ladies at the automat, NYC. 1966

Girl with a cigar in Washington Square Park, N.Y.C. 1965

A family on their lawn one Sunday in Westchester, New York (1968)

Jack Dracula, the Marked Man, N.Y.C., 1961

A young man in curlers at home on West 20th Street, N.Y.C. 1966

Jewish Giant, taken at Home with His Parents in the Bronx, New York, 1970

Mexican Dwarf in his hotel room, NYC, 1970

Tattooed man at a carnival, Md., 1970

Girl in her Circus Costume, Maryland (1970)

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My name is Brandon and I began Humans of New York in the summer of HONY resulted from an idea that I had to construct a photographic census of New York City. I thought it would be really cool to create an exhaustive catalogue of the city’s inhabitants, so I set out to photograph 10,000 New Yorkers and plot their photos on a map. I worked for several months with this goal in mind. But somewhere along the way, HONY began to take on a much different character. I started collecting quotes and short stories from the people I met, and began including these snippets alongside the photographs. Taken together, these portraits and captions became the subject of a vibrant blog, which over the past two years has gained a large daily following. With nearly one million collective followers on Facebook and Tumblr, HONY now provides a worldwide audience with glimpses into the lives of strangers in New York City.

Do you think Diane Arbus was successful in portraying the people she photographed in a positive light?