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52 “while the kids screamed…”: Spencer Brown to PB, interview, August 1978.
52 “I’ve never seen…”: Elbert Lenrow to PB, interview, Sept. 3, 1978.
53 “We were supposedly…”: Dorothy Evslin to PB, interview, May 8, 1979.
53 “Is it evil…”: Alex Eliot to PB, interview, April 21, 1979.
54 “First we walked…”: Ibid.
54 “Everything is going to be all right”: Phyllis Carton to PB, interview, April 15, 1980.
Chapter 8
55 “The building was next to…”: Alex Eliot to PB, interview, April 21, 1979.
55 “but not much”: Ibid.
55 “Nobody ever knew…”: Liberty Dick to PB, interview, Nov. 16, 1982.
55 “If one leg collapses…”: Alex Eliot to PB, interview, April 21, 1979.
56 “I frankly don’t know…”: Marian Wernick to PB, phone interview, Nov. 1982.
56 “make the marriage bed”: Phyllis Carton to PB, interview, April 15, 1980.
56 “Diane would follow me around…”: Liberty Dick to PB, phone interview, Nov. 16, 1982.
56 “We never benefited…”: DA to Studs Terkel, interview, Dec. 1969.
56 “It was the era…”: Ben Lichtenstein to PB, interview, Jan. 1979.
57 “wishing the war would be over soon…”: Howard Nemerov, letter to John Pauker, 1943.
57 “I was finally on my own”: Howard Nemerov to PB, interview, July 19, 1978.
57 “Allan was miserable”: Hope Eisenman to PB, interview, September 28, 1983.
58 “Mommy keeps telling me…”: Naomi Rosenbloom to PB, interview, Feb. 16, 1980.
58 “Diane Nemerov’s little sister…”: Renée Sparkia to PB, interview, March 12, 1979.
59 “She seemed more sure of herself”: Ibid.
59 “She became a wonderful mother”: Ibid.
59 “Now crawl…”: Ben Lichtenstein to PB, interview, Jan. 1979.
60 “gauche, timid, and hideously dressed”: Peggy Nemerov to PB, interview, July 19, 1978.
60 “Don’t worry…”: Howard Nemerov to PB, interview, July 19, 1978.
60 “they never ever accepted me”: Peggy Nemerov to PB, interview, July 19, 1978.
60 “We never felt rich…”: DA to Studs Terkel, interview, Dec. 1969.
60 “of everything—food, clothes, liquor”: Peggy Nemerov to PB, interview, July 19, 1978.
60 “I wanted to be an actress…”: Hilda Russell to PB, interview, July 19, 1978.
60 “get some hot tea…”: Ibid.
61 “She was so dear, so sweet…”: Ibid.
61 “Diane tried to be so nice…”: Peggy Nemerov to PB, interview, July 19, 1978.
61 “I felt so sorry…”: Ibid.
61 “I was not at my best”: Howard Nemerov to PB, interview, July 19, 1978.
61 “If you didn’t make a career…”: Jerry Miller to PB, interview, March 6, 1979.
61 “What about ‘man of letters,’ Daddy?”: Howard Nemerov to PB, interview, July 18, 1978.
62 “What made the whole thing…”: Peggy Nemerov to PB, interview, July 19, 1978.
62 “The park was almost Edwardian…”: Jill Kornblee to PB, interview, May 29, 1979.
62 “Diane’s bony bare feet…”: Ibid.
62 “Diane told me…”: Hilda Belle Rosenfield to PB, interview, April 1979.
63 “so I didn’t…”: Ibid.
Chapter 9
67 “recalcitrant—it’s determined to do one thing…”: Diane Arbus, Aperture monograph (1972).
67 “We never saw them…”: Peggy Nemerov to PB, interview, July 21, 1978.
67 “I thought it was the most revealing…”: Alex Eliot to PB, interview, April 21, 1979.
68 “Our building was never well tended…”: Dell Hughes to PB, interview, Aug. 19, 1982.
69 “They were very particular…”: Ben Lichtenstein to PB, interview, Jan, 1979.
69 “As soon as I’d come out…”: Carole McCarlson to PB, phone interview, March 21, 1980.
70 “She was building up her portfolio…”: Dorian Leigh and Laura Hobe, The Girl Who Had Everything (Doubleday, 1980), p. 62.
70 “We weren’t a very friendly bunch”: Francesco Scavullo to PB, interview, March 19, 1980.
70 “Diane always wore beige…”: Barbara Lamb to PB, interview, Feb. 10, 1979.
70 “Everybody in fashion drank”: Betty Dorso to PB, interview, April 16, 1980.
71 “They reminded me of two little mice… : Art Kane to PB, interview, Feb. 1979.
71 “Actually, Allan would act out…”: Robert Meservey to PB, interview, March 28, 1980.
71 “Diane and Allan came into my office…”: Tina Fredericks to PB, interview, Oct. 23, 1979.
72 “a flair—a talent…”: Alexander Liberman to PB, interview, Aug. 16, 1979.
72 “It was difficult…”: Tina Fredericks to PB, interview, Oct. 23, 1979.
72 “They were so well liked…”: Miki Denhoff to PB, interview, Sept. 20, 1979.
72 “But the results…”: Tina Fredericks to PB, interview, Oct. 23, 1979.
73 “like kids…”: Rick Fredericks to PB, interview, May 5, 1980.
73 “It seemed—in 1947—48—unshakable”: Betty Dorso to PB, interview, April 16, 1980.
73 “He was my first teacher”: Alex Eliot to PB, interview, July 21, 1980.
73 “Sometimes he seemed more at ease…”: Rick Fredericks to PB, interview, May 5, 1980.
73 “Your eyes opened up…”: May Eliot to PB, interview, Jan. 22, 1983.
74 “Allan would get very upset…”: Renée Sparkia to PB, interview, March 12, 1979.
74 “He could be very, very funny”: Rick Fredericks to PB, interview, Jan. 1980.
74 “she spent her time…”: Alex Eliot to PB, interview, July 20, 1980.
74 “That’s not the way it is…”: Ikko Narahara, tapes of Diane Arbus class 1970-71.
75 “Diane was like a new breath”: May Eliot to PB, interview, Jan. 22, 1983.
75 “We spent many lovely afternoons…”: Alex Eliot to PB, interview, July 20, 1980.
75 “four-way friendship was extremely complex…”: Alex Eliot, letter to PB, July 1980.
76 “God, she was beautiful! …”: Ibid.
76 “I was still madly in love…”: Ibid.
Chapter 10
77 “I was a John Robert Powers…”: Cheech McKensie to PB, interview, March 6, 1979.
78 “It was nobody’s business…”: Ibid.
78 “so trim and logical…”: Ibid.
78 “fat, sloppy, pompous…”: Ibid.
78 “She never asked for anything…”: Ibid.
79 “She had a funny attitude…”: Ibid
79 “Maybe because I could see…”: Ibid.
79 “We would take her daughter roller-skating…”: Ibid.
79 “I told her not to…”: Ibid.
79 “We were fearless…”: Ibid.
79 “I don’t know…”: Ibid.
Chapter 11
81 “loved the feel…”: Tina Fredericks to PB, interview, Oct. 23, 1979.
81 “a pillow against disaster”: Ibid.
81 “He seemed increasingly…”: Frank Parker to PB, interview, Nov. 16, 1982.
81 “They really enjoyed…”: May Eliot to PB, interview, Jan. 22, 1983.
81 “we would tie…”: Ibid.
81 “Because a woman spends…”: DA to Newsweek, March 20, 1967.
82 “My parenthood is…”: Tina Fredericks to PB, interview, Oct. 23, 1979.
82 “I kept telling myself…”: Alex Eliot to PB, interview, June 10, 1979.
82 “Disgusting! Terrible!…”: Ibid.
82 “clawed through the heavy surf”: Ibid.
82 “I found myself alone…”: Ibid.
83 “so timid…”: Frank Parker to PB, interview, Nov. 16, 1982.
83 “tension crackled…”: Ibid.
83 “because everything was swirling…”: Ibid.
83 “Anne never
forgave…”: Liberty Dick to PB, interview, Nov. 16, 1982.
84 “I never knew…”: Alex Eliot to PB, interview, July 21, 1980.
84 “continued to be…”: Ibid.
84 “She wanted to try everything…”: Ibid.
84 “But I feel like her brother”: Cranston Jones to PB, interview, Nov. 1979.
84 “Oh, Alex…”: Alex Eliot to PB, interview, July 21, 1980.
85 “Allan danced beautifully”: Ibid.
Chapter 12
86 “because Allan says…”: Alex Eliot to PB, interview, July 21, 1980.
86 “Why don’t you go…”: Renée Sparkia to PB, interview, March 12, 1979.
86 “What wonderful kids”: Ibid.
86 “then never told Daddy…”: Ibid.
87 “She would take…”: Ibid.
88 “creepy—because none of us…”: DA, letter to Peter Crookston.
88 “How does one photograph…”: Tina Fredericks to PB, interview, Oct. 23, 1979.
88 “My roommate was in her class…”: Roy Sparkia to PB, interview, March 12,1979.
88 “That’s one of the reasons…”: Tina Fredericks to PB, interview, Oct. 23, 1979.
88 “It was always great seeing D…”: Renée Sparkia to PB, interview, March 12,1979.
89 “We’d grown up rich…”: Ibid.
89 “He still had power…”: Ibid.
89 “We were taught…”: DA to Studs Terkel, interview, Dec. 1969.
89 “Kafkaesque—a fable…”: Howard Nemerov to PB, interview, July 20, 1978.
89 “mankind is at once…”: Phyllis Carton to PB, interview, April 16, 1980.
90 “It was mostly editing by long distance…”: John Pauker to PB, interview, May 23, 1981.
90 “It was my idea…”: Peggy Nemerov to PB, interview, July 20, 1978.
90 “to write the war…”: Howard Nemerov to PB, interview, July 20, 1978.
90 “You watch the night…”: “The Frozen City,” The Collected Poems of Howard Nemerov (University of Chicago Press, 1977), p. 4.
90 “lack of style”: F. C. Golffing Poetry, Nov. 1947.
90 “the legacy of modernism…”: Reed Whittemore, “On Editing Furioso,” Triquarterly, Fall 1978.
91 “Howard really started…”: Peggy Nemerov to PB, interview, July 20, 1978.
91 “I’m going to be…”: Alex Eliot to PB, interview, July 21, 1979.
91 “The place is like…”: Elbert Lenrow to PB, interview, Sept. 5, 1978.
91 “I thought he was White Russian…”: Kit Fowler to PB, interview, June 25, 1980.
91 “I always got the feeling…”: Bernard Malamud to PB, interview, March 5, 1980.
91 “He seemed driven…”: Ben Belit to PB, interview, June 25, 1980.
91 “Howard knew…”: Bill Ober to PB, interview, Aug. 10, 1981.
92 “one of them…”: Arthur Weinstein to PB, interview, July 19, 1981.
92 “gifted—perfectly written.”: New York Times Book Review, April 3, 1949.
92 “One’s photographed face…”: Howard Nemerov, Journal of the Fictive Life (Rutgers University Press, 1965), p. 80.
92 “I don’t blame you…”: Howard Nemerov to PB, interview, July 20, 1978.
92 “Diane took a wonderful picture…”: Peggy Nemerov to PB, interview, July 20, 1978.
93 “Diane became convulsed…”: Renée Sparkia to PB, interview, March 12-14, 1979.
93 “So I’m either…”: Roy Sparkia to PB, interview, March 12, 1979.
93 “Feb. 1949…”: Ibid.
93 “We wander…”: Ibid.
93 “Nobody knew…”: Ibid.
93 “Allan suddenly began talking…”: Ibid.
94 “you’ve got to remember…”: Ibid.
94 “made love all the time.”: Tina Fredericks to PB, interview, Oct. 23, 1979.
94 “Diane was just as fascinated…”: Frederick Eberstadt to PB, interview, Feb. 5, 1979.
Chapter 13
95 “Diane was pulling away…”: Alex Eliot to PB, interview, July 20, 1979.
95 “It was late afternoon…”: Ibid.
96 “fat and clumsy”: May Eliot to PB, interview, Jan. 22, 1983.
96 “She was always there for me…”: Ibid.
96 “Afterwards she would always say…”: Ibid.
96 “minor aspect”: Alex Eliot, letter to PB, July 21, 1981.
96 “we were creative…”: Ibid.
96 “That was my way…”: Alex Eliot to PB, interview, July 20, 1980.
96 “Actually, she changed my life”: Ibid.
97 “I’ve found another woman…”: Ibid.
97 “All Alex had talked about…”: Jane Winslow Eliot to PB, interview, July 20, 1980.
97 “which I had no interest in being…”: Ibid.
98 “mainly because I refused…”: Ibid.
98 “How do you feel?”: Ibid.
Chapter 14
99 “There was a lot…”: Rick Fredericks to PB, interview, Feb. 1980.
99 “the muse, the mother…”: Cheech McKensie to PB, interview, March 6, 1979.
100 “Yes, it was the novel…”: Alex Eliot to PB, interview, July 20, 1980.
100 “the evenings were long…”: Mort Gottlieb to PB, interview, Sept. 10, 1981.
101 “The contents of somebody’s bathroom…”: Peter Crookston to PB, interview, Dec. 14, 1982.
101 “if we really pressed her”: Tina Fredericks to PB, interview, Oct. 23, 1979.
101 “Diane was darting…”: Frances Gill to PB, interview, April 28, 1980.
101 “It was a protective, sheltered world…”: Kate Lloyd to PB, interview, Nov. 1979.
101 “We were insulated…”: Ibid.
101 “That was the way…”: Ibid.
101 “It was the subtext…”: Tina Fredericks to PB, interview, Oct. 10, 1979.
101 “So we worked doubly hard…”: Kate Lloyd to PB, interview, Nov. 1979.
102 “I captured them…”: Frances Gill to PB, interview, April 28, 1980.
102 “you have humility…”: Glamour, April 1951.
102 “She would say to me…”: Doon Arbus, “Diane Arbus, Photographer,” MS Magazine, Oct. 1972.
103 “being scared of Doon…”: May Eliot to PB, interview, Jan. 22, 1982.
104 “It was jolly”: Rick Fredericks to PB, interview, May 5, 1980.
104 “She had dark circles…”: Bob Meservey to PB, interview, March 28, 1980.
104 “They seemed in good spirits”: Alex Eliot to PB, interview, July 20, 1980.
104 “I think she made it herself”: Ibid.
104 “Finally I did…”: Ibid.
105 “God’s bathroom”: DA to Alex Eliot, letter, c. 1950.
105 “Diane set her camera up…”: Stewart Stern to PB, letter, March 14, 1983.
105 “full of halls”: DA to Alex Eliot, letter, c. 1950.
106 “I feel on the brink…”: Ibid.
106 “In them you see…”: Alex Eliot to PB, interview, July 20, 1980.
106 “at least four children”: Jane Winslow Eliot to PB, interview, July 20, 1980.
106 “Diane still looked sick…”: Bob Meservey to PB, interview, May 19, 1979.
106 “Maybe that’s why…”: Tina Fredericks to PB, interview, Oct. 23, 1979.
106 “Amy is like Allan…”: Ibid.
107 “The studio was magnificent”: May Eliot to PB, interview, Jan. 22, 1983.
107 “The purple was startling…”: Ibid.
107 “They were extremely kind…”: Tod Yamashiro to PB, interview, Dec. 1979.
108 “Sometimes I’d yell…”: Ibid.
108 “But her collaboration…”: Ibid.
108 “I can still see Diane…”: Ibid.
108 “PAT NAMES 20 MEN…”: New York Daily News, March 15, 1955.
108 “she had totaled 20…”: Ibid.
109 “For having relations…”: Ibid.
109 “They were playing…”: Ibid.
109 “to express sympathy…”:
Howard Nemerov, Journal of the Fictive Life (Rutgers University Press, 1965), p. 98.
109 “She was probably numbed…”: Anita Weinstein to PB, interview, Feb. 18, 1980.
109 “David kept on…”: Andrew Goodman to PB, interview, Sept 8, 1978.
110 “David longed to move…”: Ibid.
110 “The Philadelphia store had been…”: Walter Weinstein to PB, interview, Feb. 18, 1980.
110 “They wanted the floors…”: Jerry Manashaw to PB, interview, May 20, 1981.
Chapter 15
111 “They were starting…”: Tod Yamashiro to PB, interview, Dec. 1979.
111 “Diane and Allan Arbus were…”: Fran Healy to PB, interview, Oct. 29, 1979.
111 “But to get a piece…”: Art Kane to PB, interview, Dec. 1979.
112 “Diane and Allan were leading…”: Howard Nemerov to PB, interview, July 21, 1979.
112 “because Diane and Allan were incapable…”: Alex Eliot to PB, interview, July 20, 1980.
112 “The fashion/ad crowd…”: Charles James to PB, interview, date unavailable.
112 “No more parties…”: Alex Eliot to PB, interview, July 20, 1980.
112 “They asked some…”: Tina Fredericks to PB, interview, Oct. 23, 1979.
112 “It was in the days…”: Nancy Berg to PB, interview, Nov. 20, 1979.
114 “perhaps the last and greatest achievement…”: John Szarkowski, Mirrors and Windows, American Photography Since I960 (N.Y. Graphic Society, Boston), p. 17.
114 “Once just for the hell of it…”: Alex Eliot to PB, interview, July 20, 1980.
115 “Diane and Allan were classy…”: Miki Denhoff to PB, interview, Aug. 16, 1979.
115 “the work of Diane and Allan…”: Nancy Hall Duncan, The History of Fashion Photography (Alpine Books, 1979), p. 224.
115 “but Diane’s crude portraits…”: Alex Eliot to PB, interview, July 20, 1980.
115 “It’s rough on a guy…”: Rick Fredericks to PB, interview, Feb. 1980.
115 “Allan was technically excellent”: Fran Healy to PB, interview, Oct. 29, 1979.
116 “but Nick disliked Diane…”: Frederick Eberstadt to PB, interview, Feb. 5, 1979.
Chapter 16
117 “It was the start…”: Renée Sparkia to PB, interview, March 12, 1980.