Diane Arbus Trivia Questions

She studied with Lisette Model, not Ansel Adams. Model's gritty street photography heavily influenced Arbus's raw, humanistic style.

MoMA held a posthumous retrospective in 1972, the first major show of her work. It drew huge crowds and cemented her controversial legacy.

Born Diane Nemerov, her brother Howard won the Pulitzer Prize and served as U.S. Poet Laureate. Their father owned a famous Fifth Avenue department store.

Actually, she photographed nudist camps extensively and felt the nudists were too conformist. She commented that the real 'freaks' were people hiding behind clothes.

Arbus famously used a medium-format Rolleiflex camera. Its square format and waist-level viewfinder let her connect with subjects in a unique way.

In 1972, she became the first U.S. photographer to exhibit at the Venice Biennale, a landmark for photography's acceptance as fine art.

No record of this exists. Arbus lived in a traditional apartment. Kusama did run an infamous studio/happening space, but Arbus wasn't a resident.

The iconic 1967 photo of Cathleen and Colleen Wade was taken at a holiday party in Roselle, New Jersey. The twins later disliked the image's eerie fame.