Diane Arbus

Finished Patricia Bosworth's Diane Arbus, a biography.  Highly recommended read.   Diane Arbus was a photographer in the '50's, 60's and 70's who took her own life in July of 1971.  She

was an American photographer and writer noted for black-and-white square photographs of "deviant and marginal people (dwarfs, giants, transvestites, nudists, circus performers) or else of people whose normality seems ugly or surreal."

After reading the book, I would say she was extremely insecure and afraid and at the same time almost fearless in her pursuit of her photography.  She would say not fearless but rather intent on going ahead in spite of her fear.  Diane Arbus "compared taking pictures to "tiptoeing into the kitchen late at night and stealing Oreo cookies out of the fridge."" (From the Bosworth book, p313.)  Some of her work can be found here.