Like most photographers of her time, Diane Arbus looked to magazines as a means of earning a living taking pictures. Her assignments with publications such as Esquire and Harper’s Bazaar offered her opportunities to have her images published and gave her access to people and events she might not have been able to photograph otherwise. For this talk, Elizabeth Culbert, associate photo editor of the New Yorker, looks back at the artist’s magazine work from a contemporary editor’s perspective and discusses the often fluid boundaries between commercial and fine-art photography.
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