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I think that [Diane] Arbus’ work is all about herself. Her genius is about not wanting to be herself, about wanting instead to be each person that she photographed. At the time she was photographing them, she was really trying their skin on. It’s the work of someone with empathy that borders on psychosis.
— Nan Goldin, BOMB 37, Fall 1991](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lnx3hl4DlH1qf08vco1_500.jpg)
I think that [Diane] Arbus’ work is all about herself. Her genius is about not wanting to be herself, about wanting instead to be each person that she photographed. At the time she was photographing them, she was really trying their skin on. It’s the work of someone with empathy that borders on psychosis.
6 Jul 2011 / Reblogged from bombmagazine with 43 notes / empathy narcissism radical vulnerability feminist art diane arbus nan goldin
