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Diane Arbus by Patricia Bosworth 1984

p 42 "It's something that's commonly understood now, what we've learned from the east is that product is not the point. That it isn't a question of doing art, it's a question of making art what you do... "

(Alexander Eliot)

p 142 "His response to the world was so direct it was very pure. But there was always a suggested tension in his photographs between style and subject, because he never stopped exploring the photographic form. Which made his images more complex." (Louis Silverstein talking about Robert Frank)

p 143 "I shot and developed rolls of film in about three different places and made contact sheets - fifty contact sheets in New York, fifty contact sheets in the South, fifty in California. I looked at them when I painted them, but I didn't choose any photographs. I just looked at them and

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saw they were recurring images like the jukebox or the cars or the flag, and so it got bigger and I turned back again and took another trip to Detroit. Then I came back to New York and I enlarged all the pictures I liked, maybe two hundred of them, put them up on the wall and then eliminated the ones I didn't like. Then I put them together in three sections and I started each section with the American flag and each section with no people and then people." (Robert Frank - 1971)

p 166 There were lots of knife fights, but Diane didn't blink an eye. 'Places are the only things you can trust,' she would say

p 187 "The most mysterious thing is a fact clearly stated." Lisette Model

p 189 That an image at its truest should be both literal and transcendent.