Editing Diane Arbus (section)

==Legacy==
"[Arbus's] work has had such an influence on other photographers that it is already hard to remember how original it was", wrote the art critic [[Robert Hughes (critic)|Robert Hughes]] in a November 1972 issue of [[Time (magazine)|''Time'' magazine]].<ref name=Hughes>[[Robert Hughes (critic)|Hughes, Robert]]. [https://web.archive.org/web/20101022200748/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,910470,00.html "Art: to Hades with Lens"]. ''[[Time (magazine)|Time]]'', November 13, 1972. Retrieved February 12, 2010.</ref> She has been called "a seminal figure in modern-day photography and an influence on three generations of photographers"<ref name=Estrin2018/> and is widely considered to be among the most influential artists of the last century.<ref name="Bunnell1973">{{cite journal |last1=Bunnell |first1=Peter C. |title=Diane Arbus |journal=The Print Collector's Newsletter |date=January–February 1973 |volume= 3 |issue= 6 |pages= 128–130 |jstor=44129496 }}</ref><ref name="Crookston" /><ref>{{cite web |title=100 Most influential photographers of all time |url=http://aphotoeditor.com/2012/09/18/100-most-influential-photographers-of-all-time/ |website=aphotoeditor.com |date=September 18, 2012 |publisher=aPhotoEditor |access-date=November 1, 2018}}</ref>

When the film ''[[The Shining (film)|The Shining]]'', directed by [[Stanley Kubrick]], was released to cinemas worldwide in 1980 and became hugely successful, millions of moviegoers experienced Diane Arbus' legacy without realizing it. The movie's recurring characters of identical twin girls who are wearing identical dresses appear on-screen as a result of a suggestion Kubrick received from crew member [[Leon Vitali]]. He is described by film historian Nick Chen as "Kubrick's right-hand man from the mid-70s onwards".<ref name="dazeddigital.com">{{Cite web|url=https://www.dazeddigital.com/film-tv/article/37626/1/the-untold-story-of-leon-vitali-kubricks-assistant|title=The untold story of Stanley Kubrick's obsessive assistant|date=October 2, 2017|website=www.dazeddigital.com|accessdate=November 11, 2022}}</ref> Chen goes on to reveal, "Not only did Vitali videotape and interview 5,000 kids to find [the right child actor to portray] Jack Nicholson's [character's] son, Danny, he was also responsible for discovering the creepy twin sisters on the final day of auditions. The pair, in fact, weren't twins in Kubrick's script, and it was Vitali who immediately suggested Diane Arbus' infamous photo of [[Identical Twins, Roselle, New Jersey, 1967|identical twin sisters]] as a point of reference."<ref name="dazeddigital.com"/>

Since Arbus died without a will, the responsibility for overseeing  her work fell to her daughter, Doon.<ref name="Lubow2003" /> She forbade examination of Arbus' correspondence and often denied permission for exhibition or reproduction of Arbus' photographs without prior vetting, to the ire of many critics and scholars.<ref name="Lubow2003"/> The editors of an academic journal published a two-page complaint in 1993 about the estate's control over Arbus' images and its attempt to censor characterizations of subjects and the photographer's motives in article about Arbus. A 2005 article called the estate's allowing the British press to reproduce only fifteen photographs an attempt to "control criticism and debate".<ref name="Sewell">[http://findarticles.com/p/news-articles/evening-standard-london-uk/mi_8010/is_20051014/diane-arbuss-carnival-cruelty/ai_n40051752 "Diane Arbus's Carnival of Cruelty"].{{dead link|date=May 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} ''[[Evening Standard]]'' (London), October 14, 2005. Retrieved February 14, 2010.</ref> On the other hand, it is common institutional practice in the U.S. to include only a handful of images for media use in an exhibition press kit.<ref>{{cite web |title=The Practical Art World |url=https://thepracticalartworld.com/2011/06/19/how-to-create-a-press-release-for-your-art-exhibition/ |website=www.thepracticalartworld.com |date=June 19, 2011 |publisher=The Practical Art World |access-date=November 19, 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Guggenheim |title=Press Kits |url=https://www.guggenheim.org/press-room/press-kits |website=www.guggenheim.org |publisher=Guggenheim |access-date=November 19, 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Smithsonian American Art Museum |title=Exhibition Press Kits |url=https://americanart.si.edu/press/kits |website=www.americanart.si.edu |publisher=Smithsonian American Art Museum |access-date=November 19, 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Yale University Art Gallery |url=https://artgallery.yale.edu/about-press-room |website=www.artgallery.yale.edu |publisher=Yale University Art Gallery |access-date=November 19, 2018}}</ref> The estate was also criticized in 2008 for minimizing Arbus' early commercial work, although those photographs were taken by Allan Arbus and credited to the Diane and Allan Arbus Studio.<ref name=Lubow2003/><ref name=ONeill2008/>

In 2011, a review in ''[[The Guardian]]'' of ''An Emergency in Slow Motion: The Inner Life of Diane Arbus'' by [[William Todd Schultz]] references "...the famously controlling Arbus estate who, as Schultz put it recently, 'seem to have this idea, which I disagree with, that any attempt to interpret the art diminishes the art.{{'"}}<ref>{{cite news |last1=O'Hagan |first1=Sean |title=Diane Arbus: humanist or voyeur? |url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2011/jul/26/diane-arbus-photography-sideshow |access-date=November 19, 2018 |newspaper=[[The Guardian]]|date=July 26, 2011}}</ref>

In 1972, Arbus was the first photographer to be included in the [[Venice Biennale]]; her photographs were described as "the overwhelming sensation of the American Pavilion" and "an extraordinary achievement".<ref name=Jacob2018/>{{rp|51–52}}<ref name=Guggenheim/><ref name=Kramer>Kramer, Hilton. "Arbus Photos, at Venice, Show Power". ''The New York Times'', June 17, 1972.</ref>

The Museum of Modern Art held a retrospective curated by John Szarkowski of Arbus's work in late 1972 that subsequently traveled around the United States and Canada through 1975;<ref name=CheimRead>{{cite web |last1=Cheim Read |title=Diane Arbus |url=https://www.cheimread.com/artists/diane-arbus |website=www.cheimread.com |access-date=November 7, 2018}}</ref> it was estimated that over seven million people saw the exhibition.<ref name=Muir/> A different retrospective curated by Marvin Israel and Doon Arbus traveled around the world between 1973 and 1979.<ref name=CheimRead/>

Doon Arbus and Marvin Israel edited and designed a 1972 book, ''Diane Arbus: An Aperture Monograph'', published by [[Aperture Foundation|Aperture]] and accompanying the Museum of Modern Art's exhibition.<ref name=Monograph1972 /> It contained eighty of Arbus' photographs, as well as texts from classes that she gave in 1971, some of her writings, and interviews,<ref name=Monograph1972 /><ref name="ParrBadger">[[Martin Parr|Parr, Martin]], and [[Gerry Badger]]. ''The Photobook: a History''. vol. I. London & New York: Phaidon, 2004. {{ISBN|0-7148-4285-0}}.</ref>

In 2001–04, ''Diane Arbus: An Aperture Monograph'' was selected as one of the most important [[photobook]]s in history.<ref name="ParrBadger" /><ref>Caslin, Jean, and D. Clarke Evans. ''Building a Photographic Library''. San Antonio: Texas Photographic Society, 2001. {{ISBN|1-931427-00-3}}.</ref><ref name="Roth2001">Roth, Andrew, editor. ''The Book of 101 Books: Seminal Photographic Books of the 20th Century''. New York: PPP Editions in association with Roth Horowitz LLC, 2001. {{ISBN|0-9670774-4-3}}.</ref><ref>Roth, Andrew, editor. ''The Open Book: a History of the Photographic Book from 1878 to the Present''. Göteborg, Sweden: Hasselblad Center, 2004.</ref>

[[Neil Selkirk]], a former student, began printing for the 1972 MOMA retrospective and Aperture Monograph.<ref name=Revelations/>{{rp|214, 269}} He remains the only person who is authorized to make posthumous prints of Arbus' work.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Staff |first1=The Met | date=2005 | title=Diane Arbus, Legendary New York Photographer, Celebrated in Retrospective at Metropolitan Museum |url=https://www.metmuseum.org/press/exhibitions/2005/diane-arbus-legendary-new-york-photographer-celebrated-in-retrospective-at-metropolitan-museum |website=www.metmuseum.org |publisher=The Metropolitan Museum of Art |access-date=November 13, 2018}}</ref>

A half-hour documentary film about Arbus' life and work known as ''Masters of Photography: Diane Arbus'' or ''Going Where I've Never Been: The Photography of Diane Arbus'' was produced in 1972 and released on video in 1989.{{Citation needed|date=August 2024}}<ref>Traditional Fine Arts Organization. [http://www.tfaoi.com/aa/8aa/8aa159d.htm "American Photography. DVD/VHS Videos"]. Retrieved February 12, 2010.</ref> The voiceover was drawn from recordings made of Arbus' photography class by [[Ikkō Narahara]] and voiced by [[Mariclare Costello]], who was Arbus' friend and the wife of her ex-husband Allan.

[[Patricia Bosworth]] wrote an [[unauthorized biography]] of Arbus published in 1984. Bosworth reportedly "received no help from Arbus's daughters, or from their father, or from two of her closest and most prescient friends, Avedon and ... Marvin Israel".<ref name=Muir/> The book was also criticized for insufficiently considering Arbus's own words, for speculating about missing information, and for focusing on "sex, depression and famous people", instead of Arbus' art.<ref name=Rubinfien2005/>

In 1986, Arbus was inducted into the [[International Photography Hall of Fame and Museum]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Diane Arbus |url=https://iphf.org/inductees/diane-arbus/ |access-date=July 23, 2022 |website=International Photography Hall of Fame |language=en-US}}</ref>

Between 2003 and 2006, Arbus and her work were the subject of another major traveling exhibition, ''Diane Arbus Revelations'', which was organized by the [[San Francisco Museum of Modern Art]]. Accompanied by a book of the same name, the exhibition included artifacts such as correspondence, books, and cameras as well as 180 photographs by Arbus.<ref name=Rubinfien2005/><ref name=Schjeldahl/><ref name=Met2005/> By "making substantial public excerpts from Arbus's letters, diaries and notebooks" the exhibition and book "undertook to claim the center-ground on the basic facts relating to the artist's life and death".<ref name=Charrier2012>{{cite journal |last1=Charrier |first1=Philip |title=On Diane Arbus: Establishing a Revisionist Framework of Analysis |journal=History of Photography |date=September 12, 2012 |volume=36 |issue=4 |pages=422–438 |doi=10.1080/03087298.2012.703401 |s2cid=191518565 }}</ref> Because Arbus's estate approved the exhibition and book, the chronology in the book is "effectively the first authorized biography of the photographer".<ref name=Revelations/>{{rp|121–225}}<ref name=DeCarlo2004/>

In 2006, the fictional film ''[[Fur (film)|Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus]]'' was released, starring [[Nicole Kidman]] as Arbus; it used Patricia Bosworth's unauthorized biography ''Diane Arbus: A Biography'' as a source of inspiration. Critics generally took issue with the film's "fairytale" portrayal of Arbus.<ref name=Dargis>[[Manohla Dargis|Dargis, Manohla]]. [https://movies.nytimes.com/2006/11/10/movies/10fur.html "A Visual Chronicler of Humanity's Underbelly, Draped in a Pelt of Perversity"]. ''[[The New York Times]]'', November 10, 2006. Retrieved February 4, 2010.</ref><ref name=Zacharek>[[Stephanie Zacharek|Zacharek, Stephanie]]. [http://www.salon.com/entertainment/movies/review/2006/11/10/fur/print.html "''Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus'' (review)"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110605010328/http://www.salon.com/entertainment/movies/review/2006/11/10/fur/print.html |date=June 5, 2011}} [[Salon.com]], November 10, 2006. Retrieved February 3, 2010.</ref>

The Metropolitan Museum of Art purchased twenty of Arbus' photographs (valued at millions of dollars) and received Arbus' archives, which included hundreds of early and unique photographs, and negatives and contact prints of 7,500 rolls of film, as a gift from her estate in 2007.<ref>Vogel, Carol. [https://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/18/arts/design/18muse.html "A Big Gift for the Met: the Arbus Archives"]. ''[[The New York Times]]'', December 18, 2007. Retrieved February 5, 2010.</ref>

In 2018, ''[[The New York Times]]'' published a belated obituary of Arbus<ref name=Estrin2018/> as part of the Overlooked history project.<ref name=PadnaniHow /><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/obituaries/overlooked.html|title=Remarkable Women We Overlooked in Our Obituaries|last=Padnani|first=Amisha|date=March 8, 2018|work=[[The New York Times]]|access-date=March 24, 2018}}</ref>