"For the next few months, Oregonians can witness firsthand the dark genius of Diane Arbus at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art on the University of Oregon campus in Eugene. The current exhibition Looking Back: Diane Arbus, 1956-1970 displays twenty vintage gelatin prints spanning her brief career, selected from a recent gift of thirty-six photographs by Fraenkel Gallery in San Francisco. Framed and matted in an assortment of sizes and formats, they're mounted on the walls of the West Focus Gallery on the museum's second level."
"This modest 200-square-foot space has multiple entry points, but I recommend starting in the southeast corner, where a wall-mounted text by the show's organizer Thom Sempere (JSMA Associate Curator of Photography) briefly sketches Arbus's life and photographic ideas. "Arbus sought environments and circumstances where identity was being expressed, performed, or negotiated," he writes. Many of her photos captured all three acts of identity at once."
Diane Arbus used a camera as a psychic probe that penetrated to subjects' cores, seeking fault-lines and revealing vulnerabilities. Her portraits captured outsiders, nudists, eccentrics, and people described as 'born with their trauma,' often producing unflattering yet truthful images. An exhibition at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art in Eugene presents twenty vintage gelatin prints spanning 1956–1970, selected from a gift by Fraenkel Gallery. The photographs are framed in varied sizes and mounted in the West Focus Gallery. A wall text by Thom Sempere situates Arbus's focus on environments where identity is expressed, performed, or negotiated.
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