Diane Arbus and Lisette Model

Lisette Model, Austrian-born American photographer,
inspired her best known pupil Diane Arbus with a direct
and uncompromising focus on her subjects.

Both of these women captured the noble dignity of the
disenfranchised, those on the fringes, "freaks" as
Arbus refered to them.

'Most people go through life dreading they'll have a traumatic
experience. Freaks were born with their trauma. They've
already passed their test. They're aristocrats.' - DA


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Arbus

Absolutely Fabulous!

I've been watching the full Ab Fab series again
luuuuuuuuvvvvvvvv it so much!
Jennifer Saunders is a genius sweetie, darling.

Fabulous Quotes:

Patsy: 'It's fabulous darling.'
Eddy: 'Lacroix sweetie, Lacroix.'
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Eddy: 'What you don't seem to realize is that inside of me,
there is a thin person just screaming to get out.'
Gran: 'Just the one dear?'
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Eddy: 'Sweetie, what are you drinking?'
Patsy: 'Oh this? Chanel Number 5.'

For Tuesday ...

'Polite conversation is rarely either.'
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'I myself find many, even most, things objectionable.
Being offended is the natural consequence of leaving
one's home.'


For more from the brilliant Fran Lebowitz ...

Longing for London ...

Architectural images of London, England
from the late 1980's.

The Tragic 'House of Mirth'

Lily Bart: 'I thought you were so fond of Bertha.'

Mrs. Peniston: 'Oh, I am. It's much safer to be fond
of dangerous people.'


The novel by Edith Wharton.

The Terence Davies film.

Better use of the word ...

For Friday ...

There is no excellent beauty
that hath not some strangeness
in the proportion

-- Sir Francis Bacon

AGO Inspirations

The Great Cate

I'm one of those strange beasts who really like a corset.

-- Cate Blanchett