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I chose the photographer Diane Arbus. She was born in 1923 to a wealthy family and lived until the age of 1971 by her own will, committing suicide during the depression. She died young only 48 at the time. She was married, but it ended in a divorce, rough for her, but it was said to have made her a better photographer in the long run. It was never said of the exact meanings of her photos, but she expected people to be able to interpret them in their own ways, and she was hoping people could gain meaning from them. She was mostly into a sexual type of photograph, which is what gave such uniqueness to her work. Part of the reasons which I did pick her is because she was able to capture and image which she felt in her eyes was moving to her self, and the fact that she had the faith in others to interpret them in the same light she did gave her a lot of differences. In her exact wordings this was her own feelings towards those she photographed. "Freaks was a thing I photographed a lot," "It was one of the first things I photographed and it had a terrific kind of excitement for me. I just used to adore them. I still do adore some of them. I don't quite mean they're my best friends but they made me feel a mixture of shame and awe. There's a quality of legend about freaks. Like a person in a fairy tale who stops you and demands that you answer a riddle. Most people go through life dreading they'll have a traumatic experience. Freaks were born with their trauma. They've already passed their test in life. They're aristocrats." To me that shows a lot of meaning, that she saw and appreciated everyone in their own light. The thing I can most learn from her is that in its own. Nothing has to be beautiful to make a great photo. Anything can be portrayed, she changed the way many people looked at others, and the way photographers looked at their subjects.

Im going to add more than three images because i can't chose between them.