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188 “Like he’d say five million Chinese…”: DA to Studs Terkel, interview, Dec. 1969.
188 “the wildest looniest time…”: Tom Wolfe, The New Journalism (Harper and Row, 1973), pp. 29-30.
188 “Dick keeps setting…”: John Putnam to PB, interview, July 20, 1978.
188 “Celebrities have the faces…”: Newsweek, Oct. 16, 1978.
189 “unearned intimacy”: Richard Avedon to Connie Goldman, interview on National Public Radio, March 31, 1977.
189 “Diane and I were so close…”: Jane Wilson to PB, interview, Dec. 18, 1978.
189 “‘But I had a visual…”: Richard Avedon to Connie Goldman, interview on National Public Radio, March 31, 1977.
190 “because Ike’s expression…”: John Putnam to PB, interview, July 3, 1979.
190 “Dick does everything with grace”: Newsweek, March 20, 1967.
190 “Avedon for all his phenomenal success…”: Lee Witkin to PB, interview, Nov. 19, 1981.
191 “because I no longer wanted to hide…”: Richard Avedon to Connie Goldman, interview on National Public Radio, March 31, 1977.
191 “Marvin loved La Dolce Vita…”: Dale McConathy to PB, interview, Nov. 14, 1979.
192 “They respected each other so much…”: Neil Selkirk to PB, interview, Oct. 12, 1982.
193 “These shreds…”: Doon Arbus, “Diane Arbus, Photographer,” MS Magazine, Oct. 1972.
193 “A photograph for Diane…”: Marvin Israel, interview on CBS-TV Camera Three, Nov. 12, 1972.
193 “But she showed me…”: Alen McWeeney to PB, interview, Dec. 5, 1980.
193 “Taking a portrait…”: John Gossage to PB, interview, May 23, 1981.
193 “a kind of calypso”: Ikko Narahara, tapes of Diane Arbus Class 1970-71.
193 “He’s really…”: Ibid.
194 “You know how every mother…”: Joseph Mitchell to PB, interview, May 9, 1980.
195 “You feel silly…”: John Putnam to PB, interview, July 19, 1979.
195 “They run the whole social gamut”: Ibid.
195 “I mean you were allowed…”: Mary Ellen Andrews to PB, interview, Dec. 1, 1978.
195 “You’re always jumping…”: Suzanne Mantell to PB, interview, Dec. 5, 1978.
195 “began to wonder…”: Ikko Narahara, tapes of Diane Arbus Class 1970-71.
195 “I couldn’t…”: Henry Wolf to PB, interview, Sept. 5, 1979.
196 “she introduced herself…”: Alan Levy, “Working with Diane Arbus: A Many-Splendored Experience,” Art News, Summer 1973.
197 “Deeyan taught me to look…”: Ibid.
197 “On the other hand…”: Ibid.
197 “Stay outa the sun…”: Dan Talbot to PB, interview, Oct. 13, 1980.
197 “She was genuinely surprised…”: Charlie Reynolds to PB, interview, Sept. 25, 1981.
198 “Diane would cook me an egg…”: Hiro to PB, interview, May 6, 1982.
198 “But it was her portraits…”: Ibid.
198 “It’s almost trancelike…”: Owen Edwards, “Hiro Who May Just Be the Great American Photographer,” American Photographer, Jan. 1982.
198 “practically one a month”: Robert Benton to PB, interview, Jan. 28, 1979.
198 “Diane would come up…”: Ibid.
199 “Diane made no concessions…”: David Newman to PB, interview, Jan. 28, 1979.
199 “strong—athletic…”: Paul Salstrom to PB, interview, July 1, 1982.
199 “Diane spent time…”: Ibid.
200 “producing like crazy…”: Robert Benton to PB, interview, Jan. 28, 1979.
200 “Actually, it was just a compound”: Tom Morgan to PB, interview, Sept. 6, 1979.
200 “Sometimes she’d whip up…”: Ibid.
200 “They were all married…”: Ibid.
201 “The whole thing is too personal…”: Joan Morgan to PB, phone interview, Aug. 9, 1980.
201 “It was twenty yards long…”: Paul Von Ringleheim to PB, interview, Jan. 22, 1980.
201 “I hate Paul’s mural…”: Tom Morgan to PB, interview, Sept. 6, 1979.
201 “This caused some consternation…”: Ibid.
201 “I always phoned D…”: Renée Sparkia to PB, interview, Aug. 2, 1978.
202 “Diane was delighted…”: May Eliot to PB, interview, Jan. 22, 1983.
202 “there were big wine goblets…”: Ibid.
202 “Diane was trying…”: Emile de Antonio to PB, interview, Nov. 11, 1980.
202 “I always saw…”: Robert Benton to PB, interview, Jan. 31, 1979.
202 “Allan was whispering something…”: Barbara Lamb to PB, interview, Oct. 1979.
204 “Plenty of wine…”: Chris von Wangenheim to PB, interview, Dec. 8, 1980.
204 “Diane looked straight at me…”: John A. Williams to PB, interview, Nov. 1979.
204 “Diane’s friendship…”: Ibid.
204 “Diane did ask…”: Ibid.
205 “She connected…”: Ibid.
205 “Sometimes I got the feeling…”: Ibid.
205 “liked men better…”: Pat Peterson to PB, interview, Feb. 22, 1979.
205 “Diane was many things…”: Marvin Israel, “Diane Arbus,” Infinity, Nov. 1972.
206 “I’ve never heard…”: Frederick Eberstadt to PB, interview, Feb. 5, 1979.
206 “Diane told me she wanted to have sex…”: John Putnam to PB, interview, July 20, 1978.
207 “Women of my generation…”: Kathy Aison to PB, interview, July 27, 1981.
207 “Because underneath Diane was…”: Emile de Antonio to PB, interview, Nov. 16, 1980.
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208 “We’d compare prints…”: Walter Silver to PB, interview, Oct. 23, 1981.
208 “I remember…”: John Putnam to PB, interview, July 20, 1978.
209 “He collects things…”: James Mellow, “Walker Evans Captures the Unvarnished Truth,” New York Times, Dec. 1, 1974.
209 “He’d juggle…”: Isabelle Story to PB, interview, Jan. 9, 1981.
209 “Marvin would…”: Ibid.
209 “some of the eccentric photographs…”: Ibid.
210 “March 3, 1963…”: from an unpublished letter of Walker Evans.
210 “Walker had a falling out…”: Isabelle Story to PB, interview, Jan. 9, 1981.
210 “Maybe it was because…”: Ibid.
210 “She seemed turned on…”: Ibid.
210 “Class is the deepest mystery…”: Susan Sontag, On Photography (Delta, 1977), pp. 54-55.
211 “I’m living proof…”: Andy Warhol and Pat Hackett, POPism: The Warhol ‘60s (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1980), p. 8.
211 “although Walker tried…”: Isabelle Story to PB, interview, Jan. 9, 1981. 211 “a terrific story…”: Diane Arbus, Aperture monograph (1972).
211 “where everybody sat around…”: Isabelle Story to PB, interview, Jan. 9, 1981.
212 “butts all over the place”: Renée Sparkia to PB, interview, March 12, 1979.
212 “Even Grandma Rose…”: Ibid.
212 “My father taught me…”: Howard Nemerov, Journal of the Fictive Life (Rutgers University Press, 1965), p. 70.
212 “David had been the big gun…”: Helen Quat to PB, interview, 1978.
213 “go in and ask…”: Renée Sparkia to PB, interview, March 11, 1979.
213 “American rites and customs…”: DA, Guggenheim application, 1963.
213 “mostly about Daddy”: Renée Sparkia to PB, interview, March 12, 1979.
213 “I didn’t really adore him”: DA to Studs Terkel, interview, Dec. 1969.
214 “businessman fantasies”: Ibid.
214 “The cold was my revenge…”: Howard Nemerov, Journal of the Fictive Life, p. 69.
214 “[My father] was a man…”: Ibid.
214 “He looks like Everyman”: Howard Nemerov to PB, interview, July 20, 1979.
214 “She was very upset…”: Harold Hayes to PB, interview, Aug. 17, 1978.
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4 “Suddenly he woke up…”: DA to Studs Terkel, interview, Dec. 1969.
214 “really awful when my father died…”: Ibid.
215 “how [Daddy’s] energy seemed reapportioned…”: Ibid.
215 “in a whispery little voice…”: Ben Fernandez to PB, interview, Feb. 1, 1979.
215 “Mommy came…”: Renée Sparkia to PB, interview, March 12, 1979.
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216 “not an intimate…”: Arthur Sainer to PB, interview, April 3, 1981.
216 “really pissed off…”: Ibid.
216 “Diane would have…”: Bruce Davidson to PB, interview, Feb. 5, 1980.
216 “I remember…”: Arthur Sainer to PB, interview, April 3,1981.
217 “counting all the people…”: John Putnam to PB, interview, July 19, 1979.
217 “Diane really dug…”: Ibid.
217 “I’d tell Diane…”: Ibid.
217 “Triplets remind me…”: Peter Crookston to PB, interview, Dec. 20, 1979.
218 “that a snake charmer…”: Howard Nemerov to PB, interview, July 19, 1979.
218 “Everything is superb and breathtaking…”: Doon Arbus, “Diane Arbus, Photographer,” MS Magazine, Oct. 1972.
219 “burst into tears…”: Ibid.
219 “She called one morning…”: Joseph Mitchell to PB, interview, Oct. 30, 1979.
220 “We talked a great deal…”: Ibid.
220 “my brother’s and my…”: DA to Studs Terkel, interview, Dec. 1969.
220 “I hate intelligence…”: Howard Nemerov, Journal of the Fictive Life (Rutgers University Press, 1965), p. 92.
221 “A dream of…”: Ibid., p. 78.
222 “We had the same lexicon”: DA to Studs Terkel, interview, Dec. 1969.
222 “windowless elevator hall…”: Howard Nemerov, Journal of the Fictive Life, p. 90.
222 “who became a peculiar clue…”: DA to Studs Terkel, interview, Dec. 1969.
222 “She always seemed sad…”: Emile de Antonio to PB, interview, Oct. 10, 1980.
223 “I probably ended up…”: Ibid.
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224 “Diane was at every spectacle…”: Bob Adelman to PB, interview, Aug. 5, 1981.
224 “most of the protests…”: Ibid.
224 “She used to…”: Frederick Eberstadt to PB, interview, Feb. 5, 1979.
224 “Everybody can be famous for fifteen minutes”: Andy Warhol and Pat Hackett, POPism: The Warhol ‘60s (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1980).
225 “I’d stop at nothing…”: Mark Haven to PB, interview, July 17, 1981.
225 “Frazier and I talked…”: John Putnam to PB, interview, Oct. 8, 1980.
225 “She was peddling…”: Pat Rotter to PB, interview, Sept. 1979.
225 “the most unbelievable walk…”: Ibid.
226 “The lobby was like Hades”: Ibid.
226 “In the early sixties…”: Andy Warhol and Pat Hackett, POPism: The Warhol ‘60s, p. 223
227 “You actually get a sense…”: Isabelle Story to PB, interview, Jan. 9, 1981.
227 “This artist is daring…”: Walker Evans in Louis Kronenberger, ed., Quality: Its Image in the Arts (Atheneum, 1969), p. 172.
227 “they weren’t pictures…”: John Szarkowski to PB, interview, Aug. 9,1981.
228 “Diane had already…”: Ibid.
229 “Suddenly I could not…”: Bruce Davidson to PB, interview, Feb. 5, 1980.
229 “And I asked…”: Ibid.
230 “Diane and I…”: Ibid.
230 “I’ll never forget it…”: Ibid.
230 “You’re better taking pictures…”: Ibid.
231 “I don’t know…”: Ibid.
231 “God, those two women…”: Ibid.
231 “Lisette had been intimidated…’“: Bob Cato to PB, interview, Aug. 5, 1982.
231 “some are instinctive…”: Lisette Model to PB, interview, Feb. 6,1979.
232 “Whenever I photograph…”: Ibid.
232 “Oh—what she told me!…”: Ibid.
232 “She had to be flying…”: Ibid.
232 “Let me be exploited!” Lisette Model to Philip Lopate, interview.
232 “telling her of my plans…”: Peter Salstrom to PB, letter, Sept. 16, 1978.
233 “It was a sunny…”: Ibid.
233 “It was a deep friendship…”: Gay Talese to PB, interview, Feb. 1, 1980.
234 “She was obviously…”: Ibid.
234 “We exhibited…”: Yuben Yee to PB, interview, May 25, 1981.
234 “People were uncomfortable…”: Ibid.
235 “Diane Arbus’ pictures…”: Jim Hughes to PB, interview, July 1, 1982.
235 “I sometimes thought…”: John Putnam to PB, interview, March 18,1980.
235 “The whole area…”: Ibid.
236 “collective cave painting…”: documented by Mervyn Kurianski and Jon Naan, text by Norman Mailer, The Faith of Graffiti (An Alskog Book, 1974).
236 “It’s impossible to get out…”: John Putnam to PB, interview, March 18, 1980.
236 “She was gentle…”: John Gossage to PB, interview, May 24,1981.
237 “Dorothea Lange had the idea…”: Bob Adelman to PB, interview, Aug. 5, 1981.
237 “Diane was a terrific teacher…”: Paula Hutsinger to PB, interview, March 21, 1979.
237 “In another class…”: Ibid.
238 “He influenced Brassai…”: Ibid.
239 “Don’t you love freaks?”: Susan Brownmiller to PB, interview, Jan. 3,1980.
239 “Diane said…”: Presto the Fire Eater to PB, interview, Oct. 5, 1981.
239 “She walked off…”: Ibid.
240 “These are a new generation of photographers…”: John Szarkowski, wall label for “New Documents” show, March 1967.
241 “steadying hand”: DA, postcard to John Szarkowski, c. 1966.
241 “She imagined…”: Garry Winogrand to PB, interview, Nov. 10, 1981.
241 “Before that I’d been seeing her…”: Ibid.
241 “I thought her idea…”: Ibid.
241 “It was like…”: Chris von Wangenheim to PB, interview, Dec. 8, 1980.
241 “two Mamiya…”: John Putnam to PB, interview, March 18, 1980.
242 “Diane Arbus’ closest friend…”: Owen Edwards, “Marvin Israel, the Mentor Who Doesn’t Want to Be Famous,” Village Voice, Oct. 23, 1975.
242 “Diane doesn’t love…”: Gertrude Nemerov to PB, interview, July 24, 1978.
242 “my biggest influence…”: Owen Edwards, “Marvin Israel, the Mentor Who Doesn’t Want to Be Famous.”
242 “In public, Diane always kept her distance…”: Emile de Antonio to PB, interview, Nov. 9,1980.
242 “It was like a weird battle…”: Chris von Wangenheim to PB, interview, Dec. 8, 1980.
242 “Often it was as if she didn’t have any identity…”: Diane Cleaver to PB, phone interview, March 15, 1980.
242 “Marvin kept in touch…”: Carol Barilla to PB, interview, March 2,1980.
243 “Marvin making a lunch date with me…”: Bob Cato to PB, interview, Aug. 5, 1982.
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245 “I think I’ll buy this for Marvin…”: Pat Peterson to PB, interview, Feb. 22, 1979.
245 “quite controversial…”: Ibid. 245
245 “where an artist…”: Ibid.
245 “how much the trip…”: Ibid.
246 “Diane marching into my office…”: Geri Stutz to PB, interview, Dec. 9, 1981.
246 “Diane looked like an angel…”: Dorothy Seiberling, “Pinky’s Pictures,” New York Feb. 21, 1977.
246 “Get to the Museum…”: DA, postcard to Robert Meserveys. “For a while…”: Garry Winogrand to PB, interview, Nov. 10, 1981.
247 “what disturbed and disoriented people…”: Peter Bunnell, “Diane Arbus,” Print Collectors Newsletter, Jan/Feb.1977.
247 “Diane’s images reminded us…”: John Szarkowski to PB, interview, Aug. 9, 1981.
247 “It
was like what happened…”: Saul Leiter to PB, interview, May 18, 1981.
247 “Her subject matter was just too difficult…”: Emile de Antonio to PB, interview, Nov. 19, 1981.
247 “unflinchingly…”: Max Kosloff, “Some Contemporary American Photographers,” Nation, May 6, 1967.
248 “One does not look…”: Marion Magid, “Diane Arbus in New Documents,” Arts, April 1,1967.
248 “It impresses me terribly…”: DA to Ann Ray Martin, interview, 1967.
248 “I work from awkwardness…”: Ibid.
248 “I thought how ordinary…”: Ibid.
249 “She looks as if she’d stopped…”: Ibid.
249 “The process of photography…”: Ibid.
249 “I love Cornell’s secrets…”: Ibid.
249 “I love what people say…”: Ibid.
249 “Photographing is not about…”: John Gossage to PB, interview, May 24,1981.
250 “Even though the water…”: Tina Fredericks to PB, interview, Oct. 23, 1979.
250 “they have secrets…”: Richard Lindner, Vogue, Aug. 15, 1967.
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252 “She hated…”: Garry Winogrand to PB, interview, Nov. 10,1981.
253 “I suggested…”: Joseph Mitchell to PB, interview, May 9, 1980.
253 “we still hadn’t met…”: Ibid.
254 “electric with anxiety”: Larry Shainberg to PB, interview, Oct. 12, 1982.
255 “Imitation was not for her…”: Doon Arbus, “Diane Arbus, Photographer,” MS Magazine, Oct. 1972.
255 “She refused to speak to me…”: Peter Hujar to PB, phone interview, March 4, 1980.
255 “In 1967 she was trying out…”: Garry Winogrand to PB, interview, Nov. 10,1981.
255 “instantly attracted”: Peter Crookston to PB, interview. May 24, 1980.
256 “You have a lovely daughter…”: Ibid.
256 “I was awakened…”: Ibid.
257 “If you sit on the inside…”: Peter Crookston to PB, interview, June 1982.
257 “because he was so beautiful”: Peter Crookston to PB, interview, Dec. 14, 1982.
257 “And, yes, I believed Diane…”: Ibid.
258 “There was a curious improbability…”: Marvin Israel, “Diane Arbus,” Infinity, Nov. 1972.
258 “You were so gentle…,”: DA to Peter Crookston, letter, c. 1967.