Susan Sontag’s criticism of Diane Arbus

From On Photography, (1977) Susan Sontag, London: Penguin, pages 32-48. Untitled – 1, 1970-1971. Diane Arbus Notes & passages of interest. Sontag begins her essay comparing an exhibition of 112 photographs by Diane Arbus that was exhibited in 1972 in at The Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) in New York city that drew large crowds

Philip-Lorca diCorcia

diCorcia had become an important figure in contemporary art photography and his aesthetic and methodology has been a great influence and much emulated in both the art and commercial world. diCorcia’s style has been to create staged / fictional and highly stylised scenes using a constructed narrative view to follow a preconceived artistic stratagy. His