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117 “Mommy, Daddy, Howard…”: Ibid.
118 “I wanted D to acknowledge…”: Ibid.
118 “I finally could stand it…”: Roy Sparkia to PB, interview, March 12, 1980.
118 “Anyhow I let Gertrude…”: Ibid.
119 “I would dream about Diane…”: Renée Sparkia to PB, interview, March 12, 1980.
119 “we’d talk a long time…”: Ibid.
119 “When clothes belong to a person…”: Cheech McKensie to PB, interview, March 6, 1979.
119 “grasp at straws”: Ibid.
119 “a very tall ugly dumb…”: Anne Tucker to PB, phone interview, Nov. 1981.
119 “off-limit experiences.”: Cheech McKensie to PB, interview, March 6, 1979.
120 “He was a Greek god…”: Ibid.
120 “We’d been best friends…”: Ibid.
121 “right away…”: Alex Eliot to PB, interview, July 20, 1980. Ibid.
121 “She had no real interest…”: Ibid.
122 “a great artist…”: Ibid.
122 “you can do anything…”: Ibid.
122 “You owe it to yourself”: Ibid.
122 “Ma had always thought…”: Amy Arbus, interview on radio station WBAI, Jan. 3, 1973.
122 “I learned from his impatience…”: Richard Avedon in Owen Edwards, “Zen and the Art of Alexey Brodovitch,” American Photographer, June 1979.
122 “He didn’t care…”: Art Kane to PB, interview, Sept. 27, 1978.
123 “It was a remarkable discipline…”: Owen Edwards, “Zen and the Art of Alexey Brodovitch.”
123 “Set yourself a problem…”: Frank Zachary to PB, interview, Nov. 2, 1978.
123 “The life of a commercial photographer…”: Art Kane to PB, interview, Sept. 27, 1978.
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125 “the most instinctive eyes…”: Ben Fernandez to PB, interview, Jan. 9, 1979.
125 “Can’t you tie your own shoes?” from an unpublished essay on Lisette Model by Philip Lopate.
126 “He thought…”: Ibid.
126 “I was praised…”: Ibid.
126 “I hate pretty prints”: Ibid.
126 “It’s exciting…”: Ibid.
126 “They said…”: Ibid.
127 “You couldn’t get a word in…”: Irene Fay to PB, interview, June 21, 1981.
127 “photography is the art…”: Ben Fernandez to PB, interview, Jan. 9, 1979.
127 “Carmel used to say…”: from an unpublished essay on Lisette Model by Philip Lopate.
127 “I asked him what was cooking…”: Ibid.
127 “Later at a Museum of Modern Art…”: Ibid.
127 “Evsa was as talented…”: Ibid.
128 “walked across Asia…”: Ibid.
128 “But they doted on each other…”: Irene Fay to PB, interview, June 21, 1981.
128 “a virtual international report…”: Peter Bunnell; Helen Gee and the Limelight (catalog: Feb. 12-March 8, 1977, Carlton Galleries, 127 E. 69 St., N.Y. 10021).
129 “The camera is an instrument…”: from an unpublished essay on Lisette Model by Philip Lopate.
129 “photograph a face like a Picasso”: Ibid. “Don’t shoot…”: designed by Marvin Israel, foreword by Bernice Abbott, Lisette Model (Aperture, 1979), p. 9.
130 “little balloons…”: from an unpublished essay on Lisette Model by Philip Lopate.
130 “What I want to photograph…”: Doon Arbus, “Diane Arbus, Photographer,” MS Magazine, Oct. 1972.
131 “She liked being afraid…”: Ibid.
131 “If I ever went away for a weekend…”: Alan Levy, “Working with Diane Arbus: A Many Splendored Experience,” Art News, Summer 1973.
131 “Oh, you look terrific! …”: Barbara Brown to PB, phone interview, March 9, 1980.
131 “I was terrified most of the time…”: David Nemerov to PB, interview, Jan. 31, 1980.
132 “The very process…”: Barbara Brown to PB, phone interview, March 9, 1980.
132 “I never take it off”: David Newman to PB, interview, Jan. 31, 1980.
132 “She learned from Model…”: Peter Bunnell, “Diane Arbus,” Print Collectors Newsletter, Jan./Feb. 1973.
132 “The androgenous, the crippled…”: Lisette Model, interview on CBS-TV Camera Three, Nov. 12, 1972.
132 “I’d be fascinated by…”: Diane Arbus, Aperture Monograph (1972).
132 “There was a tremendous fantasy quality…”: Lisette Model to PB, interview, Feb. 6, 1979.
132 “Do you know any streetwalkers?”: Ibid.
133 “Diane stopped…”: Bob Meservey to PB, interview, May 19, 1979.
133 “She was a mentor…”: Alex Eliot to PB, interview, July 20, 1980.
133 “An extraordinary love…”: unpublished interview with Lisette Model by Philip Lopate.
133 “Until I studied with Lisette…”: Newsweek, March 20, 1967.
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135 “Diane always wore…”: Jill Isles to PB, interview, April 14, 1981.
135 “Aren’t you ever worried…”: Renee Phillips to PB, interview, Feb. 22, 1981.
135 “Independence and purity…”: Ibid.
135 “It’s a testing…”: DA to Studs Terkel, interview, Dec. 1969.
136 “Oh she is gorgeous”: DA, letter to Meserveys (undated).
136 “sort of weird rarefied air.”: Ibid.
136 “I think it was hard for her…”: Peggy Nemerov to PB, interview, July 20, 1979.
136 “A fairly agreeable…”: Howard Nemerov to PB, interview, July 20, 1979.
137 “They were obviously very close”: Bernard Malamud to PB, interview, March 5, 1980.
137 “modern—chic…”: Howard Nemerov to PB, interview, July 20, 1979.
137 “important and beautiful.”: New York Times Book Review, July 17, 1955.
138 “he never made comments…”: Howard Nemerov to PB, interview, July 20, 1979.
138 “You get the out-of-town…”: Renée Sparkia to PB, interview, March 12, 1980.
138 “She could be a terrific cook…”: Tina Fredericks to PB, interview, Oct. 23, 1979.
138 “who was so handsome…”: Tami Grimes to PB, interview, Sept. 1979.
138 “They seemed glamorous…”: Sybille Pearson to PB, interview, Oct. 22, 1979.
139 “She was so sensuous…”: Ibid.
139 “I always felt wanted…”: Ibid.
139 “which was a geometric study…”: Emile de Antonio to PB, interview, Oct. 1980.
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141 “It was a rather…”: Cheech McKensie to PB, interview, May 1980.
142 “Mary wasn’t allowed to be an artist…”: Claire Kirby to PB, interview, Nov. 1979.
142 “Bob kept saying…”: Louis Faurer photographs from Philadelphia and New York, 1937-1943. Compiled and Edited by Edith A. Tenolli and John Gossage. Art Gallery University of Maryland College Park, March 10-April 23, 1981.
142 “Robert was one…”: Louis Silverstein to PB, interview, January 1980.
143 “I shot and developed…”: Robert Frank to Walker Evans, Yale Photography Seminar, 1971.
143 “To Robert Frank…”: Jack Kerouac, preface to Robert Frank, The Americans.
143 “both situational and contextual…”: Garry Winogrand, Public Relations (Museum of Modern Art, 1977) p. 11.
143 “stalking, observing…”: Robert Frank to Dennis Wheeler, Criteria, June 1977.
144 “It was an insane time”: Ibid.
144 “It was insane”: Ibid.
145 “I learned a lot…”: Ibid.
145 “We were a scruffy, excitable…”: Buffie Johnson to PB, interview, Dec. 17, 1979.
145 “Everybody was in everybody else’s pocket”: Sondra Lee to PB, interview, Nov. 10, 1980.
145 “It didn’t matter…”: Loring Eutemay to PB, interview, Feb. 1, 1979.
145 “Mary was the greatest dancer…”: Ibid.
146 “She began appearing…”: Rosalyn Drexler to PB, phone interview,
April 20,1979.
146 “Diane never drank…”: Paul Resika to PB, interview, Oct. 3, 1978.
147 “Amy stands tiny…”: Life Library of Photography: Photographing Children, p. 176.
147 “pieces of dreams”: “Mary Frank Explores Women’s Erotic Fantasies,” by James R. Matthews, New York Times, Jan. 19, 1975.
147 “The men in our group…”: Barbara Forst to PB, interview, February 1979.
147 “Everybody was screwing…”: Ibid.
147 “so we were not sustained…”: Ibid.
148 “If only Hitler were alive…”: Paul Resika to PB, interview, Oct. 3, 1978.
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149 “this exquisite…”: Helen Merrill to PB, interview, Oct. 10, 1978.
149 “Doon is far braver…”: Tina Fredericks to PB, interview, Oct. 23, 1979.
150 “By the end of a session…”: Richard Marx to PB, interview, March 3, 1979.
150 “If only we had…”: Ibid.
151 “the dinners fizzled…”: Alex Eliot to PB, interview, July 20, 1980.
151 “By now our offices…”: Ibid. 151 “which clinched it…”: Ibid.
151 “I wanted to live…”: Ibid.
151 “blowing until…”: Ibid.
153 “I told her…”: Cheech McKensie to PB, interview, March 1979.
153 “I am going to be numbed…”: Ibid.
153 “we were thrown out on the street…”: Ibid.
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157 “They were gently estranged”: Bob Meservey to PB, interview, June 1979.
157 “It wasn’t very homey”: Tina Fredericks to PB, interview, Oct. 23, 1979.
157 “Allan said…”: Arthur Unger to PB, interview, June 7, 1982.
158 “He dreamed…”: Emile de Antonio to PB, interview, Nov. 19, 1980.
158 “I think she was wearing…”: Ted Schwartz to PB, interview, Dec. 1979.
159 “I thought Diane and Allan would always…”: Gertrude Nemerov to PB, interview, July 21, 1978.
159 “A lot of his Seventh Avenue cronies…”: Nate Cummings to PB, interview, Aug. 20, 1978.
159 “Nemerov’s paintings are crude…”: Time, Nov. 24, 1958.
159 “People who bought them…”: Ibid.
159 “You see? An artist can be…”: John Pauker to PB, interview, May 24, 1981.
159 “As we got poorer and poorer…”: Amy Arbus, interview on radio station WBAI, Jan. 3, 1973.
160 “She was upset…”: Tina Fredericks to PB, interview, Oct. 23, 1979.
160 “She photographed…”: Frank Zachary to PB, interview, April 7, 1979.
161 “De knows everybody…”: Tina Fredericks to PB, interview, Oct. 23, 1979.
161 “De connected artists with everything…”: Andy Warhol and Pat Hackett, POPism: the Warhol ‘60s (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1980), pp. 3-4.
161 “But I was never…”: Emile de Antonio to PB, interview, Nov. 11, 1980.
161 “I called it that…”: Ibid.
161 “And it wasn’t…”: Ibid.
161 “the delicate art…”: Diane Arbus, “The Full Circle,” Infinity, Feb. 1962.
162 “They were grainy…”: Emile de Antonio to PB, interview, Nov. 16, 1980.
163 “like the pits…”: John Putnam to PB, interview, July 19, 1979.
163 “People keep asking me…”: William Borders, “Moondog,” New York Times, May 15, 1965.
164 “He had an awful smile”: Amy Arbus, interview on radio station WRVR, Fall 1972.
164 “It’s not degrading…”: William Borders, “Moondog.”
164 “Presumably Diane did…”: Emile de Antonio to PB, interview, Nov. 19, 1981.
164 “because they can’t fake…”: John Putnam to PB, interview, Aug. 20, 1978.
164 “Jesus! these stories…”: Emile de Antonio to PB, interview, Nov. 16, 1980.
165 “I’ve been photographing…”: Charlie Reynolds to PB, interview, Sept. 25, 1981.
165 “Diane was fascinated…”: the Amazing Randi to PB, interview, Oct. 4, 1981.
166 “these very strange people”: Amy Arbus, interview on radio station WBAI, Jan. 3, 1973.
166 “There’s some thrill…”: Ikko Narahara, tapes of Diane Arbus Class 1970-71.
166 “Even then robbings…”: Emile de Antonio to PB, interview, Nov. 19, 1981.
167 “She became almost…”: Presto to PB, interview, Oct. 5, 1981.
167 “They were like foreign bodies…”: Amy Arbus interview on radio station WBAI, Jan. 3, 1973.
167 “I thought they were great…”: the Amazing Randi to PB, interview, Oct. 4, 1981.
167 “Everything he did…”: Ibid.
168 “He’d be wearing…”: Ibid.
169 “Marvin and I are similar…”: Tina Fredericks to PB, interview, Oct. 23, 1979.
169 “Marvin would always get turned on…”: Nancy Grossman to PB, interview, March 24, 1979.
170 “first great female private eye…”: Marvin Israel, “Diane Arbus,” Infinity, Nov. 1972.
170 “Marvin thinks an artist’s…”: Larry Shainburg to PB, interview, Jan. 24, 1984.
170 “he believed…”: Ibid.
170 “Marvin was like a creative sounding board…”: Chris von Wangenheim to PB, interview, Dec. 8, 1980.
170 “Diane changed…”: Cheech McKensie to PB, interview, March 6, 1980.
170 “He was very contemptuous…”: Shirley Fingerhood to PB, interview, Feb. 24, 1981.
170 “ ‘Come on! Come on!’…”: Ben Fernandez to PB, interview, Feb. 1, 1979.
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172 “We were developing…”: David Newman to PB, interview, Jan. 31, 1979.
172 “bowled over…”: Harold Hayes to PB, interview, Aug. 17, 1978.
172 “Diane knew the importance…”: Robert Benton to PB, interview, Jan. 31, 1979.
173 “very sexual, very feminine…”: Harold Hayes to PB, interview, Aug. 17, 1978.
173 “Diane was so pleased…”: Ibid.
174 “William Harrington…”: New York Times, 1935.
174 “Detective Wanderer…”: Ibid.
174 “collecting things…”: A. D. Coleman, Light Readings (Oxford University Press, 1979), p. 77.
174 “pet crematorium…”: Ibid.
174 “It would quickly mingle…”: K. T. Morgan, Politiks & Other Human Interests, March 14, 1978, p. 30.
174 “There are 28 stars…”: Diane Arbus, “The Full Circle,” Infinity, Feb. 1962.
175 “I foolishly decided…”: Harold Hayes to PB, interview, Aug. 17, 1978.
175 “I feel like an explorer”: Seymour Krim to PB, interview, May 14, 1981.
175 “It would be two a.m. …”: Robert Benton to PB, interview, Jan. 31, 1979.
175 “I was frightened by her capacity…”: Doon Arbus, “Diane Arbus, Photographer,” MS Magazine, Oct. 1972.
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176 “in a few years…”: Stanley Edgar Hyman, “The Art of Joseph Mitchell,” The Critic’s Credentials (Atheneum, 1978), p. 79.
176 “typing away in my cell…”: Joseph Mitchell to PB, interview, Oct. 30, 1979.
177 “Born freaks are the aristocracy…”: Joseph Mitchell, McSorley’s Wonderful Saloon (Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1943), p. 95.
177 “Most people go through life…”: Newsweek, March 20, 1967.
177 ‘“I urged Diane not to romanticize…”: Joseph Mitchell to PB, interview, Oct. 30, 1979.
178 “She said she had looked…”: Ibid.
178 “She could hypnotize people…”: Joel Meyerowitz to PB, phone interview, Jan. 9, 1981.
178 “Ssh! I’m working”: Richard Marx to PB, interview, March 3, 1980.
178 “I asked her to please take my picture…”: Dale McConathy to PB, interview, Nov. 14, 1979.
178 “There are hundreds…”: Marvin Israel, “Diane Arbus,” Infinity, Nov. 1972.
178 “I love to go to people’s houses…”: Newsweek, March 20, 1967.
179 “She could be extremely…
”: Frederick Eberstadt to PB, interview, Feb. 5, 1979.
179 “What came to really excite her…”: Marvin Israel, “Diane Arbus,” Infinity, Nov. 1972.
179 “I’d wanted to be an actress…”: Polly Boshung to PB, interview, Aug. 10, 1979.
180 “Diane Arbus was awful nice…”: Ibid.
180 “I just told her…”: Shirley Fingerhood to PB, interview, Feb. 24, 1981.
180 “last angry summer…”: Sidney Simon to PB, interview (date unavailable).
180 “and Allan, Susan and her husband…”: Ibid.
181 “We hunted high and low…”: Ibid.
181 “bejeweled 6 by 9 foot room on 48 Street…”: Diane Arbus, “The Full Circle,”
Infinity, Feb. 1962.
181 “On his left hand…”: Ibid.
181 “He who searches for trash…”: Ibid. “a hermit and a very cheerful man…”: Harold Hayes to PB, interview, Aug. 17, 1978.
182 “Your last letter…”: Ibid.
182 “I am what I call…”: Diane Arbus, “The Full Circle,” Infinity, Feb. 1962.”
183 “These are five singular people…”: Ibid.
183 “Nancy did publish…”: Ilya Stanger to PB, interview, Jan. 6, 1981.
183 “I didn’t understand…”: Nancy White to PB, interview, Oct. 13, 1980.
183 “We sat around…”: Emile de Antonio to PB, interview, Nov. 19, 1981.
184 “We got a couple of cancellations…”: Paul Aison to PB, interview, July 1981.
184 “Dear Mr. Mitchell…”: Joseph Mitchell to PB, interview, Oct. 30, 1979.
184 “Howard was expected…”: Dorothy Evslin to PB, interview, May 8, 1979.
184 “Howard Nemerov is one of the best…”: Yale Review, June 1961.
185 “Daddy never praised…”: John Pauker to PB, interview, May 23, 1981.
185 “Daddy was absolutely devastated…”: Renée Sparkia to PB, interview, March 12, 1979.
185 “I really did love Diane…”: Ibid.
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187 “The most mysterious thing…”: Lisette Model to PB, interview, Feb. 6, 1979.
187 “I am very gloomy and scared…”: DA, postcard to the Meserveys, c. 1962.
187 “Diane always put…”: Tom Morgan to PB, interview, Sept. 6, 1979.