Friday, 4 May 2012

Movie Night - Fur, an imaginary portrait of Diane Arbus

An unusual name for a film, yes, but the costumes and outfits were elegant, sophisticated and typical of the 1940's to 1950's . So who was she?
Diane Arbus was an American photographer and writer noted for black-and-white square photographs of "deviant and marginal people or of people whose normality seems ugly or surreal.  In 1972, a year after she committed suicide, Arbus became the first American photographer to have photographs displayed at the Venice Biennale.In 2006, the motion picture Fur, starring Nicole Kidman as Arbus, presented a fictional version of her life story.
Read more about the film here.






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