The woman who made freaks famous—and made you question who the real freaks are.
The work of photographer Diane Arbus as explained by her daughter, friends, critics, and in her own words as recorded in her journals. Illustrated with many of her photographs. Mary Clare Costello, narrator Themes: Arbus' quirky go-it-alone approach. Her attraction to the bizarre, people on the fringes of society: sexual deviants, odd types, the extremes, styles in questionable taste, poses and situations that inspire irony or wonder. Where most people would look away she photographed.
Direction
Musilli lets Arbus's images breathe—no sugarcoating, no easy answers.
Production
Her actual journals, her actual voice. Creepy and transcendent.
Director
John Musilli
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Doon Arbus, the narrator, later became a writer and married actor James Earl Jones.
Lisette Model's appearance matters—she was Arbus's teacher who famously told her 'the more specific you are, the more general it becomes.'
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