Diane Arbus Youthful Self-Portrait

Diane Arbus

Composed A Youthful Self-Portrait, which is the subject of photographs, taking of herself in the mirror without the camera to serve as another subject. American photographer (1923–1971) who photographed a wide range of subjects always in familiar settings: homes, streets, and workplaces, with no distance between subjects and these environments. By befriending, she was able to capture rare intimate intensity.

Experienced “depressive episodes” all during her life, like her mother In 1968, Arbus wrote a suicide letter to a friend, Carlotta Marshall. July 26, 1971, while living in New York City, Arbus Committed suicide and died by barbiturates and cutting her wrists.