PERSONAL LIFE, AFTER 1959 apartment at Charles Street, 158; apartment at East 10th Street, 267; apartment at Westbeth, 293-5, 309, 320-1; danger and risk-taking, attitude toward, 218, 257; daughters (Doon and Amy), relationship with, 159-60, 173, 186, 187, 202, 216, 223, 256, 267-8; depressions, 185, 211, 249-50, 268, 286, 290, 311, 312, 318-19; dress and appearance, 173, 210, 234, 265, 288; estrangement and separation from Allan Arbus, 157-9, 171, 180, 185, 201-3; fears, overcoming of, 131, 205, 256; forty-fifth birthday, 265; friendship with Richard Avedon, see Avedon, Richard; friendship with Marvin Israel, see Israel, Marvin; friendship with Lisette Model, see Model, Lisette; illness (hepatitis), 239, 268, 269, 281, 283; increasing loneliness, 275; interest in literature, 178, 196-7, 211, 274; interest in sexual role changes and pornography, 250; love of flying, 283; memories of childhood, 222, 278-9; money problems, 159-60, 236, 258, 281 ; photographs taken of, 246, 249, 252, 293, 302-3, 313; relationship with Allan, after separation, 244, 245, 269, 271, 281, 283, 284, 286-7, 310; relationship with brother, see Nemerov, Howard; relationship with Alex and Jane Eliot, 203, 246, 268, 289-90, 310; relationship with father, 187-8, 212-15; relationship with mother, 184, 185-6, 242, 265, 279, 316, 318; relationship with sister, 185, 201, 213, 215; sexual relationships, 205-7, 256-7, 290-1, 319; suicide, attitude toward, 200, 219-20, 309, 315-16; telephone conversations with friends, 275, 310, 316; Terkel interview, 277-80; therapy, for depression, 286, 292, 293, 311
PHOTOGRAPHY CAREER achievement award, 301; association with Robert Frank and Louis Faurer, 114, 124, 141; attitude toward earning money, 160, 198, 264, 279, 287; camera worn at all times, 116, 132, 241; cameras, 67, 187, 196, 223, 255, 299, 300-1; collaboration with Allan Arbus in fashion photography, see Arbus studio; cross-country bus trip, 218-19; darkroom development, 67, 132, 151, 237, 270, 306; dislike of fashion business, 86, 111, 119; distinctive qualities of photographic work, 227-8, 240, 275; early student photographs, 67; exploring “forbidden” subject matter, 130-1, 212, 250; gallery exhibits, 273, 274, 280, 298; Guggenheim projects, 213, 218, 236, 258; influence on photographers, 247, 275, 301; interest in history of photography, 123-4, 230; interest in news photography, 238, 299, 308; interest in painting, 100, 133-4; lack of self-confidence, 281-2; lectures, 286; London trip for Nova, 288-90; magazine assignments, 160, 208, 252, 287, 298; museum exhibits, see Museum of Modern Art; museum exhibits, public reaction to, 234-5, 249; relationship with photographic subjects, 223, 224, 227, 250; reputation with magazine art directors, 237; reputation as “photographer of freaks,” 272, 311; teachers (Abbott, Brodovitch, Model), 67, 122-3, 129-34; teaching and students, 237, 291-2, 301-5, 307, 311, 313, 319; technical effects, 132, 235, 270, 306; technique imitated, 247, 255; unpublished portfolio of prints, 306; as woman photographer, 208, 298
Arbus, Doon: birth of, 59, 61, 62-3; childhood of, 74, 81, 82, 83, 102-3, 105, 131, 135, 136, 139; Anthony Perkins and, 149-50; photographs of, 103, 116; teen-age life of, 159, 165, 173, 185, 202, 213, 216, 217, 223; work and independent life of, 178 n., 238, 256, 267-8, 271, 275, 285, 295, 310, 316, 320, 321
Arbus, Edith, 54
Arbus, Harry, 33, 54
Arbus, Lureen, 33
Arbus, Rose Goldberg, 33
Arbus studio (partnership of Allan and Diane), 68, 69-73, 86, 100, 111-12, 114-15, 119; continued after partnership ends, 121, 136, 152, 158; Diane as stylist, 108, 120-1; East 63rd Street studio, 135; East 72nd Street studio, 107; Greenwich Village studio, 157, 158
Arnold, Eve, 208
Art Forum, 311
Astaire, Fred, 190
Atkinson, Ti Grace, 295-8
Atlantic City, 230
Auden, W. H., 137, 237
Avedon, Richard, 20, 69, 115, 122, 188-93; Doon Arbus and, 267-8, 320; books by, 228-9; exhibits of work by, 300; friendship of Diane Arbus and, 189, 190, 215, 229, 236, 268, 276, 282, 285-6, 287, 295, 299, 307, 310; at funeral, 321; Hiro and, 188, 198, 299; Marvin Israel and, 228, 242, 255; Lisette Model and, 231; at museum shows, 246, 305; owns Arbus portfolio, 306 n.; photographs of Viva by, 262, 263; projects trip to Vietnam, 265; seminars of, 253; successful financially, 175, 287
Baden, Dr. Michael, 320
bag ladies, 168
Bailey, F. Lee, 282
Baldwin, James, 228
Balzac, Honoré de, 123
Barr, Alfred, 32
Bassman, Lillian, 70
Beard, Peter, 312
Beck, Julian, 216, 259
Belit, Ben, 91
Bellamy, Richard, 99-100, 141, 144, 223
Bellevue, 173, 175
Bellocq, E.J., 130 n., 211
Bellow, Saul, 88
Bennington College, 91, 136-7
Benton, Robert, 172, 173, 175, 198-9, 199-200; 202
Benton, Sally, 175, 199
Berg, Nancy, 112
Bergdorf Goodman, 7, 138
Berlin, Richard, 262
Bernikow, Louise, 43
Bernstein, Leonard, 246
Berryman, John, 137
Black, Algernon, 29, 246
Blake, William, 137
Blesh, Rudi, 127
blind people, 164, 275, 287
Bloomgarden, Kermit, 139
Blumenfeld, Erwin, 68
bondage houses, 311-12
Bonwit Teller, 70, 71, 110, 114, 138
Borges, Jorge Luis, 197, 275, 287
Boshung, Polly, 179, 182
Bourke-White, Margaret, 113, 208, 240
Brady, Mathew, 123, 173
Brandt, Bill, 122, 183, 307
Brassai, Gyula Halasz, 122, 130 n., 177, 183, 238, 307
Brockman, Susan, 301-2
Broday, Shelley, 309
Brodovitch, Alexey, 115, 122-3, 126-7, 128, 169
Brown, Barbara, 132, 287
Brown, James, 238-9
Brown, Robert, 136, 138-9, 146
Brown, Spencer, 52
Browning, Tod, 162
Brownmiller, Susan, 239
Bruhn, Erik, 237
Bunnell, Peter, 128 n., 132, 247
Burke, Kenneth, 218, 317
Burroughs, William, 141, 229
Bush, Marcie, 199
Cage, John, 161
Calisher, Hortense, 305
Callahan, Sean, 273
Calley, John, 276, 282
Calvin Klein advertisements, 267-8, 304
cameras, 67, 143, 187, 196, 223, 255, 299
Cameron, Julia, 123, 237
Camp Arden, 28
Campbell, Winnie, 102, 108
Canfield, Cass, 209
Capa, Cornell, 229, 316
Capa, Robert, 128 n.
Capote, Truman, 173, 191, 225, 228 n.
Carmel, Eddie, 193-4, 246, 311
Carmichael, Stokely, 253
Carroll, Lewis, 219
Cartier-Bresson, Henri, 87, 114, 128 n., 142, 229, 238, 240
Carton, Phyllis, 27, 30-1, 32, 49-50, 51, 54, 56, 89; adventures of Diane and, 130, 149; cards sent to, 218, 246
Cather, Willa, 74
Cato, Bob, 113, 231, 243
Céline, 169
Central Park, 287-8; Diane Arbus’ childhood memories of, 10, 12, 15, 17, 23, 46, 278; Diane’s children in, 62, 102, 135; 1960s events in, 252, 253, 265; photographs taken in, 15, 40, 72, 113, 114, 132, 249, 273
Cerf, Bennett, 304
Chaplin, Charlie, 192
Cheever, John, 173
Chekhov, Anton, 151, 158
Chicago riots (1968), 274, 275
children, photographs of, 15, 116, 132, 196, 219, 244-5, 277
Children in Photography, 147
Christ, Miss, 18
Christie, Julie, 285
Circle in the Square, 136
circus photographs, 165-6
Clarke, Shirley, 146, 320
Cleage, Albert, 305
Cleaver, Diane, 242
Cocksucker Blues, 144
Cohen, Marvin, 167, 216
Colliers, 160
Columbo, Joe, 198
Condé Nast, 71-2, 101, 114, 136, 252, 303
Coney Island, 79, 125, 126, 131, 166, 197, 223, 238, 284
Congo the Jungle Creep, 167-8, 239
Cook, Ethel, 41, 43
Cooper, Anderson Hays, 252
Cooper Union, 291
Corcoran Gallery, 311
Cornell, Joseph, 249
Cosmos, 294
Costello, Mariclare, 245, 276, 281, 284, 321
Crawford, Joan, 35, 173
Crookston, Peter, 255-8, 264, 288, 307; correspondence with, 265, 269, 277, 281, 294, 299, 300, 309-10
Cubism, 100, 270-1
Cummings, Nate, 26, 159
Cummington School of the Arts, 40-1, 43
Cunningham, Imogen, 127
Cunningham, Merce, 294
Dahl-Wolf, Louise, 68, 128, 208
Dali, Salvador, 76, 189
Dalton School, 58
D’Amico, Victor, 23, 32, 40, 50, 51, 271, 316-17
Dane, Bill, 304
DAR, 173, 175
Davidson, Bruce, 143, 216, 229-31, 236, 298-9
Davies, Bevan, 273-4
Davis, Bette, 102
Day, Doris, 102
Deal, N.J., 27
DeCarava, Roy, 113
Decroux, Etienne, 121
de Kooning, Elaine, 145
de Kooning, Willem, 78, 100, 141, 144, 145, 293
De Larverie, Stormé, 162-3, 182, 183
Denhoff, Miki, 72
Deren, Maya, 146, 158
de Rochemont, Louis, 55
Dewhurst, Colleen, 152
Dial Press, 270
Dick, Anne, see Eliot, Anne Dick
Dick, Evans, 47; estate of, 59
Dick, Liberty, 55, 56, 83
Dickey, James, 184, 220
Dickinson, Emily, 74
Dickinson, Flora Kriapp, 175
Dick’s Folly, 75
Dine, Jim, 223, 305
Dinesen, Isak, 188, 302
Dom, 253-4
Dorso, Betty, 70-1, 73
Dovima, 115
Downey, Robert, 310
Dracula, Jack, 166, 174
drag queens, photographs of, 226-7
Drexler, Rosalyn, 146
Dundy, Elaine, 27
dwarfs and giant, photographs of, 193-4
Eberstadt, Ferdinand, 116
Eberstadt, Frederick, 11, 94, 116, 179, 206, 224, 225, 321
Eberstadt, Isabel, 116, 217, 225
Eberstadt, Nena, 116
Eberstadt, Nick, 116
eccentrics, 178-80, 181-4
Edkins, Diana, 303
Edwards, Owen, 123, 242
Eisenhower, Dwight D., 190, 228, 307
Eisenman, Alvin, 57-8
Eisenman, Hope, 57-8
Eisenstaedt, Alfred, 114, 238
Eliot, Alexander, 41-6; married to Anne Dick, 47-8, 51, 53, 54, 55-6, 58, 59, 61, 67-8, 74-6, 78, 79, 81 -5, 94-5; Howard Nemerov and, 44, 91, 92; remarried to Jane Winslow, 96-100, 103-7, 112, 114, 121-2, 150-1; reviews David Nemerov’s paintings, 159; travels on Guggenheim project, 151, 246, 268, 289-90, 310
Eliot, Anne Dick, 47-8, 54, 55-6, 59, 67-8, 75-6, 81-4, 95-8
Eliot, Charles W., 41
Eliot, Jane Winslow, 96-9, 103-4, 106, 107, 121, 122, 135, 151, 289-90, 310; Arbus photographs of, 97, 114
Eliot, May, 59, 73; Diane Arbus as godmother to, 74, 75, 81, 83, 96, 103, 107, 114, 131; in later years, 202, 268, 271, 289, 310
Eliot, Sam, Jr., 41, 43, 310
Eliot, T. S., 44, 137
Elkin, Stanley, 317
Ellis, Anita, 144
Empire State Building, 215
Erwitt, Elliott, 114, 128 n.
Esquire, 171, 202, 223, 233, 255, 260; Arbus photographs for, 172-5, 177, 181-2, 198-9, 225, 252, 280, 282
Essence, 305
Ethical Culture, 16; School, 16-17, 23-4, 29, 130; settlement house, 30
Eutemay, Loring, 145, 269
Eva (Nemerov family cook), 9, 10
Evans, Isabelle, 209, 210
Evans, Walker, 76, 126, 128, 141-2, 143, 178; Diane Arbus and, 208-12, 213, 227, 239, 246, 280, 298, 305, 311
Evslin, Dorothy, 5, 18, 19, 38, 40, 53, 184
“Exasperated Boy with Toy Hand Grenade,” 15, 196, 304-5
“Family Album,” 87, 233
“Family of Man, The,” 113-14, 129, 240
Farrow, Mia, 225, 270
fashion photography, postwar, 68-9
Faurer, Louis, 70, 114, 124, 128 n., 142, 208, 262
Fay, Irene, 246, 269, 286
Federigo, or the Power of Love (Nemerov), 137
Feeley, Paul, 317
Feiden, Margot, 283
Feitler, Bea, 203-4, 205, 219, 242, 243, 254, 307, 309, 320, 321; has received private Arbus’ work, 204, 306 n.
Felker, Clay, 172, 173, 200, 260-1, 263, 264
Fellini, Federico, 191
feminist movement, 295-6
Fernandez, Ben, 21, 170, 215, 237
Ferrara, Eugene, 299
Fieldston School, 9, 13, 29, 31-2, 38, 40; Diane Arbus’ senior year at, 49-52; Diane’s sister at, 58
Fingerhood, Shirley, 49, 170, 180, 265-6, 281, 283
Fink, Abby, 179
Fink, Larry, 130, 231
Fischer, Carl, 255
Fisher, Stanley, 276
Fizdale, Bobby, 246
Flannigan, Michael, 237
Flatland, 140
Flaubert, Gustave, 211
Fonda, Henry, 188
Fonda, Jane, 184
Fonssagrives, Ferdinand, 71
Ford, Eileen, 69
Forscher, Marty, 255
Forst, Barbara, 141, 145, 147, 180, 246
Forst, Miles, 141, 147, 180
Fortune, 142, 208, 209
Fox, I. F., 7, 110
Frank, Andrea, 141
Frank, Mary, 141-2, 144, 145, 146-7, 180, 246, 254, 293, 295, 298
Frank, Pablo, 141
Frank, Robert, 70, 114, 124, 128, 160, 191, 247; Diane Arbus and, 141-6, 180, 207, 208, 228, 239, 246, 254, 298; Evans and, 209, 212; films by, 144, 161; photograph of, 303
Frank, Stephen, 291-2
Frankenthaler, Helen, 144
Frazier, Brenda, 225
Frazier, Katherine, 41, 43
freaks, 30, 31, 166-8, 170, 194, 239
Freaks (movie), 162, 168
Fredericks, Devon, 315
Fredericks, Rick, 73, 74, 99, 104, 115, 180
Fredericks, Tina, 71; at Glamour, 72-3, 82, 87, 99, 101, 102, 104, 106, 107, 112, 138, 140, 157, 158; at Ladies’ Home Journal, 160-1, 169, 180, 202; on Long Island, 208, 250, 300, 307, 315, 316
Freed, Arthur, 143
Freed, Judy, 27
Freedman, Jill, 272
Friedan, Betty, 295
Friedlander, Lee, 143, 211, 234, 240, 247, 298, 313
Frissell, Toni, 208
Frost, Robert, 137, 317
“Full Circle, The,” 182-3
Furioso, 44, 89
Gangler’s, 165
Garland, Judy, 261
Garth, Dave, 204
Garth, Heije, 204
Gass, William, 317
Gatch, Dr. Donald E., 280
Gee, Helen, 128 n.
Geldzahler, Henry, 246, 293
Geller, Uri, 165
General Electric Co., 111
Gibson, Ralph, 304
Gill, Frances, 70, 101, 102, 104
Gill, Leslie, 104
Gillison, David, 294
Gimbel’s, 7
Gingrich, Arnold, 172
Ginsberg, Allen, 141, 144, 220, 229, 300, 317
“Girl in the Watch Plaid Cap,” 237
Gish, Dorothy and Lillian, 237, 255
Glamour, 72, 86, 100-1, 111, 112, 119, 136, 202; interview in, 102
Glaser, Milton, 263
Glazer, Alice, 223
Gold, Arthur, 246
Gold, Jay, 145, 242, 269
Goldberg, Jenny, 33
Goldberg, Rose, 33
Goldman, Connie, 300
Goldsmith, Barbara,
260, 261, 262, 263
Goodman, Andrew, 7, 53, 110
Goodman, Benny, 34, 151
Gorman, Cliff, 305
Gossage, John, 193, 194, 229, 236, 249, 312, 316
Gottlieb, Mort, 100
Gould, Joe, 176
Goya, Francisco de, 100
Graham, Susan, 144
Grant’s, 166
Graves, Robert, 99
Greaser’s Palace, 310
Greco, El, 104, 105, 152
Greene, Milton, 112
Greenfield, Pati, 200
Green Gallery, 99, 223
Greer, Germaine, 314-15
Gregory, Walter, 175
Greyhound Bus Company, 111
Grimes, Tammy, 139
Grossman, Nancy, 284-5, 298, 307, 312, 318-19
Grosz, George, 33
Gruen, John, 225, 235
Gunn, Thom, 184
Gutman, Walter, 144
Hall, Kenneth, 174
Hall-Duncan, Nancy, 115
Halma, Harold, 69
Halsman, Philippe, 113, 263
Hampshire College, 313, 319
Hansa gallery, 144
Happenings, 147, 224
Harnett, Sunny, 115
Harper’s, 282 and n.
Harpers Bazaar, 69, 114-15, 122, 126-7, 142, 143, 160, 182, 191; Arbus photographs in, 137, 146, 182-4, 219, 225, 237, 241, 252-3, 255, 260-1, 270, 271, 287; assignments for, 203, 242-3, 252, 309; Avedon’s assignments for, 188, 190, 191; Munkacsi in, 189
Harriman, Averell, 135
Harrington, Michael, 235
Hart, Cathy, 174
Hartigan, Grace, 100, 113
Hartwell, T., 192, 300, 306
Harvard University, 44, 52, 317
Haven, Mark, 225, 301, 307-8
Hayden, Tom, 285
Hayes, Harold, 172-3, 175, 181-2, 200, 214, 223, 246, 255, 276, 307, 309
Healy, Fran, 111
Heckler, Leroy, 166, 177
Hemingway, Ernest, 220
Henri Bendel, 7, 138, 210, 246, 277
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