Diane Arbus, A Jewish giant at home with his parents in the Bronx, N.Y. (1970), detail.
She has been called one of the most important photographers of the 20th century; she has also been dubbed the photographer of freaks.
A new exhibition at the National Gallery of Australia (NGA) takes a look at the vintage prints of American photographer Diane Arbus, couched in conversation with her contemporaries and not so contemporaries – artists who have been influenced more recently by her iconic portraits.
