Chapter 1
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3 “I wanted to see…”: Marvin Israel, “Diane Arbus,” Infinity, Nov. 1972.
3 “a family of Jewish aristocrats”: John Putnam to PB, interview, July 1, 1979.
3 Information on the history of Russeks department store gathered from interviews with Gertrude Russek Nemerov, Howard Nemerov, Renée Nemerov Sparkia, Walter Weinstein, Arthur Weinstein, and Ben Lichtenstein, and from the Women’s Wear Daily archives.
7 “the snappiest of all of retail”: Andrew Goodman to PB, interview, Sept. 8, 1978.
7 “Russeks survived…”: Ben Lichtenstein to PB, interview, May 7, 1979.
“There was always…”: Eleanor Lambert to PB, interview, January 25, 1979.
“We were the largest buyers…”: Ben Lichtenstein to PB, interview, May 7, 1979. 8 “With money…”: Ibid.
8 “He had Russeks’ accountant…”: Ibid.
8 “My father and David…”: Walter Weinstein to PB, interview, Feb. 18, 1980.
Chapter 2
9 “they pronounced it that way…”: Gertrude Nemerov to PB, interview, July 21, 1978.
9 “Even as a baby…”: Ibid.
9 “cranky—always crying…”: from DA, unfinished Fieldston autobiography.
9 “It was almost always dark…”: Howard Nemerov to PB, interview, July 19, 1978.
10 “She had a hard sad quite lovely face…”: from DA, unfinished Fieldston autobiography.
10 “this image wasn’t concrete…”: DA to Studs Terkel, interview, Dec. 1969.
10 “who had a terrific…”: Howard Nemerov to PB, interview, July 19, 1978.
10 “a hard time figuring out…”: Gertrude Nemerov to PB, interview, July 19, 1978.
10 “But she makes…”: Renée Sparkia to PB, interview, March 12, 1979.
11 “You can look at De Pinna and Bonwit’s…”: Ibid.
11 “rubbing their hands together…”: DA to Studs Terkel, interview, Dec. 1969.
11 “I was treated like a crummy princess”: Frederick Eberstadt to PB, interview, Feb. 5, 1979.
12 “were both insulting and hurtful…”: DA to Studs Terkel, interview, Dec. 1969.
12 “an overtly powerful…”: Howard Nemerov to PB, interview, July 20, 1978.
12 “We were protected and privileged…”: Ibid.
13 “In early life…”: Howard Nemerov, Journal of the Fictive Life (Rutgers University Press, 1965), p. 84.
13 “And I for one…”: Howard Nemerov to PB, interview, July 19, 1978.
13 “My motto was…”: Ibid.
13 “We didn’t ‘explain’…”: Ibid.
13 “My mother used to…”: Ibid.
14 “[we sat] together…”: Howard Nemerov, Journal of the Fictive Life, p. 77.
14 “A little, a very little…”: Ibid, p. 79.
14 “An Old Picture”: The Collected Poems of Howard Nemerov (University of Chicago Press, 1977), p. 129.
14 “The anecdote of the poem…”: Howard Nemerov, Journal of the Fictive Life, p. 77.
Chapter 3
15 “Exasperated Boy with Toy Hand Grenade”: Life Library of Photography: Ten Personal Styles, p. 222.
15 “[since] I was such a rich kid…”: Ibid.
15 “Diane was my idol…”: Renée Sparkia to PB, interview, March 12, 1979.
15 “No, no, it shouldn’t…”: Ibid.
16 “There was this dentist…”: Ibid.
16 “It frequently crossed…”: Howard Nemerov, Journal of the Fictive Life (Rutgers University Press, 1965), p. 125.
16 “The artistic development of each student…”: Elbert Lenrow to PB, interview, September5, 1978.
16 “Diane Nemerov demonstrates…”: from Fieldston School file, Diane Nemerov.
17 “I refused to keep clean”: DA to Studs Terkel, interview, Dec. 1969.
17 “The teachers always used to think…”: DA, unfinished Fieldston autobiography.
17 “It was essentially dreary…”: DA to Studs Terkel, interview, Dec. 1969.
17 “Please no more”: Dorothy Evslin to PB, interview, May 8, 1979.
18 “I ohhed and ahhed…”: Ibid.
18 “ ‘Most of them…’ ”: Ibid.
18 “I remember vaguely…”: DA to Studs Terkel, interview, Dec. 1969.
18 “don’t lower…”: George Radkai to PB, interview, Jan. 15, 1979
18 “Once they displayed…”: Ibid.
19 “we’re predominantly…”: Arthur Weinstein to PB, interview, July 19, 1983.
20 “I never knew I was Jewish…”: DA to Studs Terkel, interview, Dec. 1969.
20 “It’s irrational to be born…”: DA to Ann Ray Martin, interview, March 20, 1967. 20 “Stubborn and stiff-necked man! …”: “Debate with the Rabbi,” The Collected Poems of Howard Nemerov (University of Chicago Press, 1977), p. 270.
Chapter 4
22 “to make some mind…”: “Beginner’s Guide,” The Collected Poems of Howard Nemerov (University of Chicago Press, 1977), p. 444.
22 “even though a friend…”: Howard Nemerov to PB, interview, July 20, 1978.
22 “à la Lillian Gish…”: DA to Studs Terkel, interview, Dec. 1969.
22 “He got every Hungarian artist…”: John Pauker to PB, interview, May 23, 1981.
22 “a basso…”: Howard Nemerov to PB, interview, July 20, 1978.
23 “Mommy ridiculed me…”: Ibid.
23 “nurse who taught me…”: Howard Nemerov, Journal of the Fictive Life (Rutgers University Press, 1965), p. 74.
23 “Diane and I were as intimate…”: Renée Sparkia to PB, interview, March 12,
1979.
23 “Obviously Diane possessed a gift…”: Victor D’Amico to PB, interview, July 29, 1980.
23 “Once I gave her class…”: Ibid.
24 “the first one to do it…”: DA, unfinished Fieldston autobiography.
24 “based on exclusion…”: Naomi Rosenbloom to PB, interview, Feb. 16, 1980.
24 “Diane would float away…”: Hallie Baldwin to PB, phone interview, Oct. 20, 1982.
24 “They were married lovers”: Naomi Rosenbloom to PB, interview, Feb. 16, 1980.
24 “Love involves a peculiar…”: Life Library of Photography: Responding to a Subject, p. 110.
25 “But, darling, what is it…”: Dorothy Evslin to PB, interview, May 8, 1979.
25 “secret, invisible…”: Howard Nemerov, Journal of the Fictive Life, p. 84.
25 “That’s my most vivid memory…”: John Pauker to PB, interview, May 23, 1981.
25 “Gertrude was deep down…”: Lillian Weinstein to PB, interview, Aug. 10, 1983.
25 “He was fantastic…”: DA to Studs Terkel, Dec. 1969.
26 “a businessman must be ruthless…”: Nate Cummings to PB, interview, Aug. 10, 1969.
26 “we’d play cards…”: Nate Cummings to PB, interview, Aug. 10, 1979.
26 “lost the entire chain…”: Renée Sparkia to PB, interview, March 11, 1979.
26 “Frank loved to gamble…”: Walter Weinstein to PB, interview, Feb. 2, 1981.
26 “so I kept quiet…”: Howard Nemerov to PB, interview, July 19, 1978.
27 “I was ashamed…”: DA, unfinished Fieldston autobiography.
27 “We were a family of silences…”: Renée Sparkia to PB, interview, March 12, 1979.
27 “Mr. Nemerov dropped in…”: Judy Freed to PB, interview, April 2, 1980.
27 “Diane didn’t seem to belong…”: Phyllis Carton to PB, interview, April 16, 1980.
27 “Diane was definitely his favorite…”: Helen Quat to PB, interview, June 1978.
28 “Dreamt and wished”: DA, unfinished Fieldston autobiography.
28 “very much even though…”: Ibid.
Chapter 5
30 “One of the things I suffered from…”: DA to Studs Terkel, interview, Dec. 1969.
30 “impulsively—in the Bronx…”: Phyllis Carton to PB, interview, April 15, 1980.
31 “Because everything in life…”: Ibid.
31 “We’d crowd into the Eighth Avenue express…”: Hilda Belle Rosenfield to PB interview, April 1979.
31 “I must have counted…”: DA to Studs Terkel, interview, Dec. 1969.
32 “She had a talent…”: Victor D’Amico to PB, interview, July 29, 1980.
32 “Maybe about Käthe Kollwitz…”: Ibid.
32 “We felt like phonies…”: Phyllis Carton to PB, interview, April 15, 1980.
32 “Not for long periods…”: Victor D’Amico to PB, interview, July 29, 1980.
33 “They’re my children. Buddy…”: Renée Sparkia to PB, interview, March 12, 1979.
33 “Dorothy was probably…”: Ben Lichtenstein to PB, interview, Jan. 1979.
33 “painfully shy…”: Ibid.
33 “As a clan…”: Lureen Arbus to PB, interview, March 6, 1980.
33 “Allan was bright…”: Arthur Weinstein to PB, interview, July 19, 1983.
33 “Allan wanted to be an actor…”: Ibid.
33 “the best actor…”: Seymour Peck to PB, interview, Oct. 17, 1979.
34 “then fell madly in love…”: Tina Fredericks to PB, interview, Oct. 23, 1979.
34 “take Diane out…”: Arthur Weinstein to PB, interview, July 19, 1983.
34 “Allan became the most…”: Renée Sparkia to PB, interview, March 12, 1979.
“And then the oddest…”: Naomi Rosenbloom to PB, interview, Feb. 16, 1980.
35 “with a religious guilt…”: Howard Nemerov, Journal of the Fictive Life (Rutgers University Press, 1965), p. 138.
35 “I thought it was a proud, odd household”: Hilda Belle Rosenfield to PB, interview, April 1979.
35 “It was David’s way…”: Ben Lichtenstein to PB, interview, May 7, 1979.
35 “Diane and I learned…”: Renée Sparkia to PB, interview, March 12, 1979.
36 “I could tell Diane…”: Gertrude Nemerov to PB, interview, July 29, 1978.
36 “All I know is…”: Ibid.
36 “but nobody could diagnose…”: Ibid.
36 “He was oily…”: Ibid.
36 “to treat me in our cabin…”: Ibid.
Chapter 6
38 “It never occurred to Aunt Gertrude…”: Dorothy Evslin to PB, interview, May 8, 1979.
38 “There were a lot of boys…”: Eda LeShan to PB, interview, Dec. 11, 1979.
38 “I’ve never seen anyone…”: Helen Quat to PB, interview, July 1978.
38 “I absolutely hated furs…”: DA to Studs Terkel, interview, Dec. 1969.
38 “And I would cry”: Howard Nemerov to PB, interview, July 21, 1978.
39 “David did everything…”: George Radkai to PB, interview, Jan. 1981.
39 “A lot of yearning…”: Renée Sparkia to PB, interview, March 12, 1979.
39 ”Diane’s thick brown hair…”: Clara Park to PB, phone interview, Aug. 19, 1981.
40 “It was the most rapturous portrait…”: Dorothy Evslin to PB, interview, May 8, 1979.
40 “Diane retaliated…”: Renée Sparkia to PB, interview, March 12, 1979.
40 “Make Diane stop…”: Victor D’Amico to PB, interview, July 29, 1980.
40 “in order to get close to nature…”: Harvey Shapiro to PB, phone interview, Aug. 20, 1978.
41 “a beaming wunderkind…”: Cranston Jones to PB, phone interview, Oct. 10, 1979.
41 “She thought everything I did…”: Alex Eliot to PB, interview, April 21, 1979.
41 “Her physical presence…”: Ibid.
41 “I told her, ‘I noticed you…’ ”: Ibid.
42 “The minute I saw it…”: Ibid.
42 “The emotion, the colors, the textures…”: Ibid.
42 “It was a tiny, eerie place…”: Louise Bernikow to PB, interview, June 5, 1980.
42 “It was a sweaty Sunday afternoon…”: Alexander Eliot, Zen Edge (Seabury Press, 1979), p. 66.
43 “Diane had a funny breastbone”: Alex Eliot to PB, interview, April 12, 1979.
43 “Diane was wondrously strange…”: Ibid.
43 “Your father reminds me…”: Ibid.
44 “She had told me…”: Ibid.
44 “tender but dominating…”: Ibid.
44 “Howard was a golden light…”: Clara Park to PB, phone interview, Aug. 19, 1981.
44 “Howard wasn’t going to be a poet…”: Ibid.
44 “Writing was for me at the beginning…”: Howard Nemerov, Journal of the Fictive Life (Rutgers University Press, 1965), p. 13.
45 “spiritual fathers”: Howard Nemerov to PB, interview, July 21, 1978.
45 “Howard was absolutely crushed…”: DA to Studs Terkel, interview, Dec. 1969.
45 “A crowded affair…”: Alex Eliot to PB, interview, April 21, 1979.
46 “we became as close as brothers…”: Ibid.
46 “Because, no matter how well we thought…”: Ibid.
46 “Always surprising…”: Ibid.
46 “I’m just going to hold her back…”: Ibid.
47 “If you say that…”: Frank Parker to PB, interview, Nov. 16, 1982.
47 “Getting married was essential…”: Ibid.
Chapter 7
49 “trotting over to me during recess…”: Naomi Rosenbloom to PB, interview, Feb. 16, 1980.
49 “For about four years…”: DA, unfinished Fieldston autobiography.
49 “because she wouldn’t accept…”: Elbert Lenrow to PB, interview, July 1979.
49 “We talked…”: Phyllis Carton to PB, interview, April 15, 1980.
49 “We were passionate…”: Eda LeShan to PB, interview, Dec. 12, 1979.
49 “Falling in love…”: Phyllis Carton to PB, interview, April 15, 1980.
50 “It was very strong…”: Ibid.
50 “Her talent was very special”: Victor D’Amico to PB, interview, July 29, 1980.
50 “to live under the wing…”: DA to Studs Terkel, interview, Dec. 1969.
50 “Mommy and Daddy were going to…”: Renée Sparkia to PB, interview, March 12, 1979.
51 “the deep selfish slowness of woman…”: DA, Fieldston essay.
51 “Diane was simply scared stiff…”: Phyllis Carton to PB, interview, April 15, 1980.
51 “She dragged herself around…”: Elbert Lenrow to PB, interview, July 30, 1978.
52 “She seems very troubled…”: Ibid.
52 “She told me…”: Howard Nemerov to PB, interview, July 21, 1978.
52 “while the kids screamed…”: Spencer Brown to PB, interview, August 1978.
52 “I’ve never seen…”: Elbert Lenrow to PB, interview, Sept. 3, 1978.
53 “We were supposedly…”: Dorothy Evslin to PB, interview, May 8, 1979.
53 “Is it evil…”: Alex Eliot to PB, interview, April 21, 1979.
54 “First we walked…”: Ibid.
54 “Everything is going to be all right”: Phyllis Carton to PB, interview, April 15, 1980.
Chapter 8
55 “The building was next to…”: Alex Eliot to PB, interview, April 21, 1979.
55 “but not much”: Ibid.
55 “Nobody ever knew…”: Liberty Dick to PB, interview, Nov. 16, 1982.
55 “If one leg collapses…”: Alex Eliot to PB, interview, April 21, 1979.
56 “I frankly don’t know…”: Marian Wernick to PB, phone interview, Nov. 1982.
56 “make the marriage bed”: Phyllis Carton to PB, interview, April 15, 1980.
56 “Diane would follow me around…”: Liberty Dick to PB, phone interview, Nov. 16, 1982.
56 “We never benefited…”: DA to Studs Terkel, interview, Dec. 1969.
56 “It was the era…”: Ben Lichtenstein to PB, interview, Jan. 1979.
57 “wishing the war would be over soon…”: Howard Nemerov, letter to John Pauker, 1943.
57 “I was finally on my own”: Howard Nemerov to PB, interview, July 19, 1978.
57 “Allan was miserable”: Hope Eisenman to PB, interview, September 28, 1983.
58 “Mommy keeps telling me…”: Naomi Rosenbloom to PB, interview, Feb. 16, 1980.
58 “Diane Nemerov’s little sister…”: Renée Sparkia to PB, interview, March 12, 1979.
59 “She seemed more sure of herself”: Ibid.
59 “She became a wonderful mother”: Ibid.
59 “Now crawl…”: Ben Lichtenstein to PB, interview, Jan. 1979.
60 “gauche, timid, and hideously dressed”: Peggy Nemerov to PB, interview, July 19, 1978.
60 “Don’t worry…”: Howard Nemerov to PB, interview, July 19, 1978.
60 “they never ever accepted me”: Peggy Nemerov to PB, interview, July 19, 1978.
60 “We never felt rich…”: DA to Studs Terkel, interview, Dec. 1969.
60 “of everything—food, clothes, liquor”: Peggy Nemerov to PB, interview, July 19, 1978.
60 “I wanted to be an actress…”: Hilda Russell to PB, interview, July 19, 1978.
60 “get some hot tea…”: Ibid.
61 “She was so dear, so sweet…”: Ibid.
61 “Diane tried to be so nice…”: Peggy Nemerov to PB, interview, July 19, 1978.
61 “I felt so sorry…”: Ibid.
61 “I was not at my best”: Howard Nemerov to PB, interview, July 19, 1978.
61 “If you didn’t make a career…”: Jerry Miller to PB, interview, March 6, 1979.
61 “What about ‘man of letters,’ Daddy?”: Howard Nemerov to PB, interview, July 18, 1978.
62 “What made the whole thing…”: Peggy Nemerov to PB, interview, July 19, 1978.
62 “The park was almost Edwardian…”: Jill Kornblee to PB, interview, May 29, 1979.
62 “Diane’s bony bare feet…”: Ibid.
62 “Diane told me…”: Hilda Belle Rosenfield to PB, interview, April 1979.
63 “so I didn’t…”: Ibid.
Chapter 9
67 “recalcitrant—it’s determined to do one thing…”: Diane Arbus, Aperture monograph (1972).
67 “We never saw them…”: Peggy Nemerov to PB, interview, July 21, 1978.
67 “I thought it was the most revealing…”: Alex Eliot to PB, interview, April 21, 1979.
68 “Our building was never well tended…”: Dell Hughes to PB, interview, Aug. 19, 1982.
69 “They were very particular…”: Ben Lichtenstein to PB, interview, Jan, 1979.
69 “As soon as I’d come out…”: Carole McCarlson to PB, phone interview, March 21, 1980.
70 “She was building up her portfolio…”: Dorian Leigh and Laura Hobe, The Girl Who Had Everything (Doubleday, 1980), p. 62.
70 “We weren’t a very friendly bunch”: Francesco Scavullo to PB, interview, March 19, 1980.
70 “Diane always wore beige…”: Barbara Lamb to PB, interview, Feb. 10, 1979.
70 “Everybody in fashion drank”: Betty Dorso to PB, interview, April 16, 1980.
71 “They reminded me of two little mice… : Art Kane to PB, interview, Feb. 1979.
71 “Actually, Allan would act out…”: Robert Meservey to PB, interview, March 28, 1980.
71 “Diane and Allan came into my office…”: Tina Fredericks to PB, interview, Oct. 23, 1979.
72 “a flair—a talent…”: Alexander Liberman to PB, interview, Aug. 16, 1979.
72 “It was difficult…”: Tina Fredericks to PB, interview, Oct. 23, 1979.
72 “They were so well liked…”: Miki Denhoff to PB, interview, Sept. 20, 1979.
72 “But the results…”: Tina Fredericks to PB, interview, Oct. 23, 1979.
73 “like kids…”: Rick Fredericks to PB, interview, May 5, 1980.
73 “It seemed—in 1947—48—unshakable”: Betty Dorso to PB, interview, April 16, 1980.
73 “He was my first teacher”: Alex Eliot to PB, interview, July 21, 1980.
73 “Sometimes he seemed more at ease…”: Rick Fredericks to PB, interview, May 5, 1980.
73 “Your eyes opened up…”: May Eliot to PB, interview, Jan. 22, 1983.
74 “Allan would get very upset…”: Renée Sparkia to PB, interview, March 12, 1979.
74 “He could be very, very funny”: Rick Fredericks to PB, interview, Jan. 1980.
74 “she spent her time…”: Alex Eliot to PB, interview, July 20, 1980.
74 “That’s not the way it is…”: Ikko Narahara, tapes of Diane Arbus class 1970-71.
75 “Diane was like a new breath”: May Eliot to PB, interview, Jan. 22, 1983.
75 “We spent many lovely afternoons…”: Alex Eliot to PB, interview, July 20, 1980.
75 “four-way friendship was extremely complex…”: Alex Eliot, letter to PB, July 1980.
76 “God, she was beautiful! …”: Ibid.
76 “I was still madly in love…”: Ibid.
Chapter 10
77 “I was a John Robert Powers…”: Cheech McKensie to PB, interview, March 6, 1979.
78 “It was nobody’s business…”: Ibid.
78 “so trim and logical…”: Ibid.
78 “fat, sloppy, pompous…”: Ibid.
78 “She never asked for anything…”: Ibid.
79 “She had a funny attitude…”: Ibid
79 “Maybe because I could see…”: Ibid.
79 “We would take her daughter roller-skating…”: Ibid.
79 “I told her not to…”: Ibid.
79 “We were fearless…”: Ibid.
79 “I don’t know…”: Ibid.
Chapter 11
81 “loved the feel…”: Tina Fredericks to PB, interview, Oct. 23, 1979.
81 “a pillow against disaster”: Ibid.
81 “He seemed increasingly…”: Frank Parker to PB, interview, Nov. 16, 1982.
81 “They really enjoyed…”: May Eliot to PB, interview, Jan. 22, 1983.
81 “we would tie…”: Ibid.
81 “Because a woman spends…”: DA to Newsweek, March 20, 1967.
82 “My parenthood is…”: Tina Fredericks to PB, interview, Oct. 23, 1979.
82 “I kept telling myself…”: Alex Eliot to PB, interview, June 10, 1979.
82 “Disgusting! Terrible!…”: Ibid.
82 “clawed through the heavy surf”: Ibid.
82 “I found myself alone…”: Ibid.
83 “so timid…”: Frank Parker to PB, interview, Nov. 16, 1982.
83 “tension crackled…”: Ibid.
83 “because everything was swirling…”: Ibid.
83 “Anne never forgave…”: Liberty Dick to PB, interview, Nov. 16, 1982.
84 “I never knew…”: Alex Eliot to PB, interview, July 21, 1980.
84 “continued to be…”: Ibid.
84 “She wanted to try everything…”: Ibid.
84 “But I feel like her brother”: Cranston Jones to PB, interview, Nov. 1979.
84 “Oh, Alex…”: Alex Eliot to PB, interview, July 21, 1980.
85 “Allan danced beautifully”: Ibid.
Chapter 12
86 “because Allan says…”: Alex Eliot to PB, interview, July 21, 1980.
86 “Why don’t you go…”: Renée Sparkia to PB, interview, March 12, 1979.
86 “What wonderful kids”: Ibid.
86 “then never told Daddy…”: Ibid.
87 “She would take…”: Ibid.
88 “creepy—because none of us…”: DA, letter to Peter Crookston.
88 “How does one photograph…”: Tina Fredericks to PB, interview, Oct. 23, 1979.
88 “My roommate was in her class…”: Roy Sparkia to PB, interview, March 12,1979.
88 “That’s one of the reasons…”: Tina Fredericks to PB, interview, Oct. 23, 1979.
88 “It was always great seeing D…”: Renée Sparkia to PB, interview, March 12,1979.
89 “We’d grown up rich…”: Ibid.
89 “He still had power…”: Ibid.
89 “We were taught…”: DA to Studs Terkel, interview, Dec. 1969.
89 “Kafkaesque—a fable…”: Howard Nemerov to PB, interview, July 20, 1978.
89 “mankind is at once…”: Phyllis Carton to PB, interview, April 16, 1980.
90 “It was mostly editing by long distance…”: John Pauker to PB, interview, May 23, 1981.
90 “It was my idea…”: Peggy Nemerov to PB, interview, July 20, 1978.
90 “to write the war…”: Howard Nemerov to PB, interview, July 20, 1978.
90 “You watch the night…”: “The Frozen City,” The Collected Poems of Howard Nemerov (University of Chicago Press, 1977), p. 4.
90 “lack of style”: F. C. Golffing Poetry, Nov. 1947.
90 “the legacy of modernism…”: Reed Whittemore, “On Editing Furioso,” Triquarterly, Fall 1978.
91 “Howard really started…”: Peggy Nemerov to PB, interview, July 20, 1978.
91 “I’m going to be…”: Alex Eliot to PB, interview, July 21, 1979.
91 “The place is like…”: Elbert Lenrow to PB, interview, Sept. 5, 1978.
91 “I thought he was White Russian…”: Kit Fowler to PB, interview, June 25, 1980.
91 “I always got the feeling…”: Bernard Malamud to PB, interview, March 5, 1980.
91 “He seemed driven…”: Ben Belit to PB, interview, June 25, 1980.
91 “Howard knew…”: Bill Ober to PB, interview, Aug. 10, 1981.
92 “one of them…”: Arthur Weinstein to PB, interview, July 19, 1981.
92 “gifted—perfectly written.”: New York Times Book Review, April 3, 1949.
92 “One’s photographed face…”: Howard Nemerov, Journal of the Fictive Life (Rutgers University Press, 1965), p. 80.
92 “I don’t blame you…”: Howard Nemerov to PB, interview, July 20, 1978.
92 “Diane took a wonderful picture…”: Peggy Nemerov to PB, interview, July 20, 1978.
93 “Diane became convulsed…”: Renée Sparkia to PB, interview, March 12-14, 1979.
93 “So I’m either…”: Roy Sparkia to PB, interview, March 12, 1979.
93 “Feb. 1949…”: Ibid.
93 “We wander…”: Ibid.
93 “Nobody knew…”: Ibid.
93 “Allan suddenly began talking…”: Ibid.
94 “you’ve got to remember…”: Ibid.
94 “made love all the time.”: Tina Fredericks to PB, interview, Oct. 23, 1979.
94 “Diane was just as fascinated…”: Frederick Eberstadt to PB, interview, Feb. 5, 1979.
Chapter 13
95 “Diane was pulling away…”: Alex Eliot to PB, interview, July 20, 1979.
95 “It was late afternoon…”: Ibid.
96 “fat and clumsy”: May Eliot to PB, interview, Jan. 22, 1983.
96 “She was always there for me…”: Ibid.
96 “Afterwards she would always say…”: Ibid.
96 “minor aspect”: Alex Eliot, letter to PB, July 21, 1981.
96 “we were creative…”: Ibid.
96 “That was my way…”: Alex Eliot to PB, interview, July 20, 1980.
96 “Actually, she changed my life”: Ibid.
97 “I’ve found another woman…”: Ibid.
97 “All Alex had talked about…”: Jane Winslow Eliot to PB, interview, July 20, 1980.
97 “which I had no interest in being…”: Ibid.
98 “mainly because I refused…”: Ibid.
98 “How do you feel?”: Ibid.
Chapter 14
99 “There was a lot…”: Rick Fredericks to PB, interview, Feb. 1980.
99 “the muse, the mother…”: Cheech McKensie to PB, interview, March 6, 1979.
100 “Yes, it was the novel…”: Alex Eliot to PB, interview, July 20, 1980.
100 “the evenings were long…”: Mort Gottlieb to PB, interview, Sept. 10, 1981.
101 “The contents of somebody’s bathroom…”: Peter Crookston to PB, interview, Dec. 14, 1982.
101 “if we really pressed her”: Tina Fredericks to PB, interview, Oct. 23, 1979.
101 “Diane was darting…”: Frances Gill to PB, interview, April 28, 1980.
101 “It was a protective, sheltered world…”: Kate Lloyd to PB, interview, Nov. 1979.
101 “We were insulated…”: Ibid.
101 “That was the way…”: Ibid.
101 “It was the subtext…”: Tina Fredericks to PB, interview, Oct. 10, 1979.
101 “So we worked doubly hard…”: Kate Lloyd to PB, interview, Nov. 1979.
102 “I captured them…”: Frances Gill to PB, interview, April 28, 1980.
102 “you have humility…”: Glamour, April 1951.
102 “She would say to me…”: Doon Arbus, “Diane Arbus, Photographer,” MS Magazine, Oct. 1972.
103 “being scared of Doon…”: May Eliot to PB, interview, Jan. 22, 1982.
104 “It was jolly”: Rick Fredericks to PB, interview, May 5, 1980.
104 “She had dark circles…”: Bob Meservey to PB, interview, March 28, 1980.
104 “They seemed in good spirits”: Alex Eliot to PB, interview, July 20, 1980.
104 “I think she made it herself”: Ibid.
104 “Finally I did…”: Ibid.
105 “God’s bathroom”: DA to Alex Eliot, letter, c. 1950.
105 “Diane set her camera up…”: Stewart Stern to PB, letter, March 14, 1983.
105 “full of halls”: DA to Alex Eliot, letter, c. 1950.
106 “I feel on the brink…”: Ibid.
106 “In them you see…”: Alex Eliot to PB, interview, July 20, 1980.
106 “at least four children”: Jane Winslow Eliot to PB, interview, July 20, 1980.
106 “Diane still looked sick…”: Bob Meservey to PB, interview, May 19, 1979.
106 “Maybe that’s why…”: Tina Fredericks to PB, interview, Oct. 23, 1979.
106 “Amy is like Allan…”: Ibid.
107 “The studio was magnificent”: May Eliot to PB, interview, Jan. 22, 1983.
107 “The purple was startling…”: Ibid.
107 “They were extremely kind…”: Tod Yamashiro to PB, interview, Dec. 1979.
108 “Sometimes I’d yell…”: Ibid.
108 “But her collaboration…”: Ibid.
108 “I can still see Diane…”: Ibid.
108 “PAT NAMES 20 MEN…”: New York Daily News, March 15, 1955.
108 “she had totaled 20…”: Ibid.
109 “For having relations…”: Ibid.
109 “They were playing…”: Ibid.
109 “to express sympathy…”: Howard Nemerov, Journal of the Fictive Life (Rutgers University Press, 1965), p. 98.
109 “She was probably numbed…”: Anita Weinstein to PB, interview, Feb. 18, 1980.
109 “David kept on…”: Andrew Goodman to PB, interview, Sept 8, 1978.
110 “David longed to move…”: Ibid.
110 “The Philadelphia store had been…”: Walter Weinstein to PB, interview, Feb. 18, 1980.
110 “They wanted the floors…”: Jerry Manashaw to PB, interview, May 20, 1981.
Chapter 15
111 “They were starting…”: Tod Yamashiro to PB, interview, Dec. 1979.
111 “Diane and Allan Arbus were…”: Fran Healy to PB, interview, Oct. 29, 1979.
111 “But to get a piece…”: Art Kane to PB, interview, Dec. 1979.
112 “Diane and Allan were leading…”: Howard Nemerov to PB, interview, July 21, 1979.
112 “because Diane and Allan were incapable…”: Alex Eliot to PB, interview, July 20, 1980.
112 “The fashion/ad crowd…”: Charles James to PB, interview, date unavailable.
112 “No more parties…”: Alex Eliot to PB, interview, July 20, 1980.
112 “They asked some…”: Tina Fredericks to PB, interview, Oct. 23, 1979.
112 “It was in the days…”: Nancy Berg to PB, interview, Nov. 20, 1979.
114 “perhaps the last and greatest achievement…”: John Szarkowski, Mirrors and Windows, American Photography Since I960 (N.Y. Graphic Society, Boston), p. 17.
114 “Once just for the hell of it…”: Alex Eliot to PB, interview, July 20, 1980.
115 “Diane and Allan were classy…”: Miki Denhoff to PB, interview, Aug. 16, 1979.
115 “the work of Diane and Allan…”: Nancy Hall Duncan, The History of Fashion Photography (Alpine Books, 1979), p. 224.
115 “but Diane’s crude portraits…”: Alex Eliot to PB, interview, July 20, 1980.
115 “It’s rough on a guy…”: Rick Fredericks to PB, interview, Feb. 1980.
115 “Allan was technically excellent”: Fran Healy to PB, interview, Oct. 29, 1979.
116 “but Nick disliked Diane…”: Frederick Eberstadt to PB, interview, Feb. 5, 1979.
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117 “It was the start…”: Renée Sparkia to PB, interview, March 12, 1980.
117 “Mommy, Daddy, Howard…”: Ibid.
118 “I wanted D to acknowledge…”: Ibid.
118 “I finally could stand it…”: Roy Sparkia to PB, interview, March 12, 1980.
118 “Anyhow I let Gertrude…”: Ibid.
119 “I would dream about Diane…”: Renée Sparkia to PB, interview, March 12, 1980.
119 “we’d talk a long time…”: Ibid.
119 “When clothes belong to a person…”: Cheech McKensie to PB, interview, March 6, 1979.
119 “grasp at straws”: Ibid.
119 “a very tall ugly dumb…”: Anne Tucker to PB, phone interview, Nov. 1981.
119 “off-limit experiences.”: Cheech McKensie to PB, interview, March 6, 1979.
120 “He was a Greek god…”: Ibid.
120 “We’d been best friends…”: Ibid.
121 “right away…”: Alex Eliot to PB, interview, July 20, 1980. Ibid.
121 “She had no real interest…”: Ibid.
122 “a great artist…”: Ibid.
122 “you can do anything…”: Ibid.
122 “You owe it to yourself”: Ibid.
122 “Ma had always thought…”: Amy Arbus, interview on radio station WBAI, Jan. 3, 1973.
122 “I learned from his impatience…”: Richard Avedon in Owen Edwards, “Zen and the Art of Alexey Brodovitch,” American Photographer, June 1979.
122 “He didn’t care…”: Art Kane to PB, interview, Sept. 27, 1978.
123 “It was a remarkable discipline…”: Owen Edwards, “Zen and the Art of Alexey Brodovitch.”
123 “Set yourself a problem…”: Frank Zachary to PB, interview, Nov. 2, 1978.
123 “The life of a commercial photographer…”: Art Kane to PB, interview, Sept. 27, 1978.
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125 “the most instinctive eyes…”: Ben Fernandez to PB, interview, Jan. 9, 1979.
125 “Can’t you tie your own shoes?” from an unpublished essay on Lisette Model by Philip Lopate.
126 “He thought…”: Ibid.
126 “I was praised…”: Ibid.
126 “I hate pretty prints”: Ibid.
126 “It’s exciting…”: Ibid.
126 “They said…”: Ibid.
127 “You couldn’t get a word in…”: Irene Fay to PB, interview, June 21, 1981.
127 “photography is the art…”: Ben Fernandez to PB, interview, Jan. 9, 1979.
127 “Carmel used to say…”: from an unpublished essay on Lisette Model by Philip Lopate.
127 “I asked him what was cooking…”: Ibid.
127 “Later at a Museum of Modern Art…”: Ibid.
127 “Evsa was as talented…”: Ibid.
128 “walked across Asia…”: Ibid.
128 “But they doted on each other…”: Irene Fay to PB, interview, June 21, 1981.
128 “a virtual international report…”: Peter Bunnell; Helen Gee and the Limelight (catalog: Feb. 12-March 8, 1977, Carlton Galleries, 127 E. 69 St., N.Y. 10021).
129 “The camera is an instrument…”: from an unpublished essay on Lisette Model by Philip Lopate.
129 “photograph a face like a Picasso”: Ibid. “Don’t shoot…”: designed by Marvin Israel, foreword by Bernice Abbott, Lisette Model (Aperture, 1979), p. 9.
130 “little balloons…”: from an unpublished essay on Lisette Model by Philip Lopate.
130 “What I want to photograph…”: Doon Arbus, “Diane Arbus, Photographer,” MS Magazine, Oct. 1972.
131 “She liked being afraid…”: Ibid.
131 “If I ever went away for a weekend…”: Alan Levy, “Working with Diane Arbus: A Many Splendored Experience,” Art News, Summer 1973.
131 “Oh, you look terrific! …”: Barbara Brown to PB, phone interview, March 9, 1980.
131 “I was terrified most of the time…”: David Nemerov to PB, interview, Jan. 31, 1980.
132 “The very process…”: Barbara Brown to PB, phone interview, March 9, 1980.
132 “I never take it off”: David Newman to PB, interview, Jan. 31, 1980.
132 “She learned from Model…”: Peter Bunnell, “Diane Arbus,” Print Collectors Newsletter, Jan./Feb. 1973.
132 “The androgenous, the crippled…”: Lisette Model, interview on CBS-TV Camera Three, Nov. 12, 1972.
132 “I’d be fascinated by…”: Diane Arbus, Aperture Monograph (1972).
132 “There was a tremendous fantasy quality…”: Lisette Model to PB, interview, Feb. 6, 1979.
132 “Do you know any streetwalkers?”: Ibid.
133 “Diane stopped…”: Bob Meservey to PB, interview, May 19, 1979.
133 “She was a mentor…”: Alex Eliot to PB, interview, July 20, 1980.
133 “An extraordinary love…”: unpublished interview with Lisette Model by Philip Lopate.
133 “Until I studied with Lisette…”: Newsweek, March 20, 1967.
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135 “Diane always wore…”: Jill Isles to PB, interview, April 14, 1981.
135 “Aren’t you ever worried…”: Renee Phillips to PB, interview, Feb. 22, 1981.
135 “Independence and purity…”: Ibid.
135 “It’s a testing…”: DA to Studs Terkel, interview, Dec. 1969.
136 “Oh she is gorgeous”: DA, letter to Meserveys (undated).
136 “sort of weird rarefied air.”: Ibid.
136 “I think it was hard for her…”: Peggy Nemerov to PB, interview, July 20, 1979.
136 “A fairly agreeable…”: Howard Nemerov to PB, interview, July 20, 1979.
137 “They were obviously very close”: Bernard Malamud to PB, interview, March 5, 1980.
137 “modern—chic…”: Howard Nemerov to PB, interview, July 20, 1979.
137 “important and beautiful.”: New York Times Book Review, July 17, 1955.
138 “he never made comments…”: Howard Nemerov to PB, interview, July 20, 1979.
138 “You get the out-of-town…”: Renée Sparkia to PB, interview, March 12, 1980.
138 “She could be a terrific cook…”: Tina Fredericks to PB, interview, Oct. 23, 1979.
138 “who was so handsome…”: Tami Grimes to PB, interview, Sept. 1979.
138 “They seemed glamorous…”: Sybille Pearson to PB, interview, Oct. 22, 1979.
139 “She was so sensuous…”: Ibid.
139 “I always felt wanted…”: Ibid.
139 “which was a geometric study…”: Emile de Antonio to PB, interview, Oct. 1980.
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141 “It was a rather…”: Cheech McKensie to PB, interview, May 1980.
142 “Mary wasn’t allowed to be an artist…”: Claire Kirby to PB, interview, Nov. 1979.
142 “Bob kept saying…”: Louis Faurer photographs from Philadelphia and New York, 1937-1943. Compiled and Edited by Edith A. Tenolli and John Gossage. Art Gallery University of Maryland College Park, March 10-April 23, 1981.
142 “Robert was one…”: Louis Silverstein to PB, interview, January 1980.
143 “I shot and developed…”: Robert Frank to Walker Evans, Yale Photography Seminar, 1971.
143 “To Robert Frank…”: Jack Kerouac, preface to Robert Frank, The Americans.
143 “both situational and contextual…”: Garry Winogrand, Public Relations (Museum of Modern Art, 1977) p. 11.
143 “stalking, observing…”: Robert Frank to Dennis Wheeler, Criteria, June 1977.
144 “It was an insane time”: Ibid.
144 “It was insane”: Ibid.
145 “I learned a lot…”: Ibid.
145 “We were a scruffy, excitable…”: Buffie Johnson to PB, interview, Dec. 17, 1979.
145 “Everybody was in everybody else’s pocket”: Sondra Lee to PB, interview, Nov. 10, 1980.
145 “It didn’t matter…”: Loring Eutemay to PB, interview, Feb. 1, 1979.
145 “Mary was the greatest dancer…”: Ibid.
146 “She began appearing…”: Rosalyn Drexler to PB, phone interview, April 20,1979.
146 “Diane never drank…”: Paul Resika to PB, interview, Oct. 3, 1978.
147 “Amy stands tiny…”: Life Library of Photography: Photographing Children, p. 176.
147 “pieces of dreams”: “Mary Frank Explores Women’s Erotic Fantasies,” by James R. Matthews, New York Times, Jan. 19, 1975.
147 “The men in our group…”: Barbara Forst to PB, interview, February 1979.
147 “Everybody was screwing…”: Ibid.
147 “so we were not sustained…”: Ibid.
148 “If only Hitler were alive…”: Paul Resika to PB, interview, Oct. 3, 1978.
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149 “this exquisite…”: Helen Merrill to PB, interview, Oct. 10, 1978.
149 “Doon is far braver…”: Tina Fredericks to PB, interview, Oct. 23, 1979.
150 “By the end of a session…”: Richard Marx to PB, interview, March 3, 1979.
150 “If only we had…”: Ibid.
151 “the dinners fizzled…”: Alex Eliot to PB, interview, July 20, 1980.
151 “By now our offices…”: Ibid. 151 “which clinched it…”: Ibid.
151 “I wanted to live…”: Ibid.
151 “blowing until…”: Ibid.
153 “I told her…”: Cheech McKensie to PB, interview, March 1979.
153 “I am going to be numbed…”: Ibid.
153 “we were thrown out on the street…”: Ibid.
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157 “They were gently estranged”: Bob Meservey to PB, interview, June 1979.
157 “It wasn’t very homey”: Tina Fredericks to PB, interview, Oct. 23, 1979.
157 “Allan said…”: Arthur Unger to PB, interview, June 7, 1982.
158 “He dreamed…”: Emile de Antonio to PB, interview, Nov. 19, 1980.
158 “I think she was wearing…”: Ted Schwartz to PB, interview, Dec. 1979.
159 “I thought Diane and Allan would always…”: Gertrude Nemerov to PB, interview, July 21, 1978.
159 “A lot of his Seventh Avenue cronies…”: Nate Cummings to PB, interview, Aug. 20, 1978.
159 “Nemerov’s paintings are crude…”: Time, Nov. 24, 1958.
159 “People who bought them…”: Ibid.
159 “You see? An artist can be…”: John Pauker to PB, interview, May 24, 1981.
159 “As we got poorer and poorer…”: Amy Arbus, interview on radio station WBAI, Jan. 3, 1973.
160 “She was upset…”: Tina Fredericks to PB, interview, Oct. 23, 1979.
160 “She photographed…”: Frank Zachary to PB, interview, April 7, 1979.
161 “De knows everybody…”: Tina Fredericks to PB, interview, Oct. 23, 1979.
161 “De connected artists with everything…”: Andy Warhol and Pat Hackett, POPism: the Warhol ‘60s (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1980), pp. 3-4.
161 “But I was never…”: Emile de Antonio to PB, interview, Nov. 11, 1980.
161 “I called it that…”: Ibid.
161 “And it wasn’t…”: Ibid.
161 “the delicate art…”: Diane Arbus, “The Full Circle,” Infinity, Feb. 1962.
162 “They were grainy…”: Emile de Antonio to PB, interview, Nov. 16, 1980.
163 “like the pits…”: John Putnam to PB, interview, July 19, 1979.
163 “People keep asking me…”: William Borders, “Moondog,” New York Times, May 15, 1965.
164 “He had an awful smile”: Amy Arbus, interview on radio station WRVR, Fall 1972.
164 “It’s not degrading…”: William Borders, “Moondog.”
164 “Presumably Diane did…”: Emile de Antonio to PB, interview, Nov. 19, 1981.
164 “because they can’t fake…”: John Putnam to PB, interview, Aug. 20, 1978.
164 “Jesus! these stories…”: Emile de Antonio to PB, interview, Nov. 16, 1980.
165 “I’ve been photographing…”: Charlie Reynolds to PB, interview, Sept. 25, 1981.
165 “Diane was fascinated…”: the Amazing Randi to PB, interview, Oct. 4, 1981.
166 “these very strange people”: Amy Arbus, interview on radio station WBAI, Jan. 3, 1973.
166 “There’s some thrill…”: Ikko Narahara, tapes of Diane Arbus Class 1970-71.
166 “Even then robbings…”: Emile de Antonio to PB, interview, Nov. 19, 1981.
167 “She became almost…”: Presto to PB, interview, Oct. 5, 1981.
167 “They were like foreign bodies…”: Amy Arbus interview on radio station WBAI, Jan. 3, 1973.
167 “I thought they were great…”: the Amazing Randi to PB, interview, Oct. 4, 1981.
167 “Everything he did…”: Ibid.
168 “He’d be wearing…”: Ibid.
169 “Marvin and I are similar…”: Tina Fredericks to PB, interview, Oct. 23, 1979.
169 “Marvin would always get turned on…”: Nancy Grossman to PB, interview, March 24, 1979.
170 “first great female private eye…”: Marvin Israel, “Diane Arbus,” Infinity, Nov. 1972.
170 “Marvin thinks an artist’s…”: Larry Shainburg to PB, interview, Jan. 24, 1984.
170 “he believed…”: Ibid.
170 “Marvin was like a creative sounding board…”: Chris von Wangenheim to PB, interview, Dec. 8, 1980.
170 “Diane changed…”: Cheech McKensie to PB, interview, March 6, 1980.
170 “He was very contemptuous…”: Shirley Fingerhood to PB, interview, Feb. 24, 1981.
170 “ ‘Come on! Come on!’…”: Ben Fernandez to PB, interview, Feb. 1, 1979.
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172 “We were developing…”: David Newman to PB, interview, Jan. 31, 1979.
172 “bowled over…”: Harold Hayes to PB, interview, Aug. 17, 1978.
172 “Diane knew the importance…”: Robert Benton to PB, interview, Jan. 31, 1979.
173 “very sexual, very feminine…”: Harold Hayes to PB, interview, Aug. 17, 1978.
173 “Diane was so pleased…”: Ibid.
174 “William Harrington…”: New York Times, 1935.
174 “Detective Wanderer…”: Ibid.
174 “collecting things…”: A. D. Coleman, Light Readings (Oxford University Press, 1979), p. 77.
174 “pet crematorium…”: Ibid.
174 “It would quickly mingle…”: K. T. Morgan, Politiks & Other Human Interests, March 14, 1978, p. 30.
174 “There are 28 stars…”: Diane Arbus, “The Full Circle,” Infinity, Feb. 1962.
175 “I foolishly decided…”: Harold Hayes to PB, interview, Aug. 17, 1978.
175 “I feel like an explorer”: Seymour Krim to PB, interview, May 14, 1981.
175 “It would be two a.m. …”: Robert Benton to PB, interview, Jan. 31, 1979.
175 “I was frightened by her capacity…”: Doon Arbus, “Diane Arbus, Photographer,” MS Magazine, Oct. 1972.
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176 “in a few years…”: Stanley Edgar Hyman, “The Art of Joseph Mitchell,” The Critic’s Credentials (Atheneum, 1978), p. 79.
176 “typing away in my cell…”: Joseph Mitchell to PB, interview, Oct. 30, 1979.
177 “Born freaks are the aristocracy…”: Joseph Mitchell, McSorley’s Wonderful Saloon (Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1943), p. 95.
177 “Most people go through life…”: Newsweek, March 20, 1967.
177 ‘“I urged Diane not to romanticize…”: Joseph Mitchell to PB, interview, Oct. 30, 1979.
178 “She said she had looked…”: Ibid.
178 “She could hypnotize people…”: Joel Meyerowitz to PB, phone interview, Jan. 9, 1981.
178 “Ssh! I’m working”: Richard Marx to PB, interview, March 3, 1980.
178 “I asked her to please take my picture…”: Dale McConathy to PB, interview, Nov. 14, 1979.
178 “There are hundreds…”: Marvin Israel, “Diane Arbus,” Infinity, Nov. 1972.
178 “I love to go to people’s houses…”: Newsweek, March 20, 1967.
179 “She could be extremely…”: Frederick Eberstadt to PB, interview, Feb. 5, 1979.
179 “What came to really excite her…”: Marvin Israel, “Diane Arbus,” Infinity, Nov. 1972.
179 “I’d wanted to be an actress…”: Polly Boshung to PB, interview, Aug. 10, 1979.
180 “Diane Arbus was awful nice…”: Ibid.
180 “I just told her…”: Shirley Fingerhood to PB, interview, Feb. 24, 1981.
180 “last angry summer…”: Sidney Simon to PB, interview (date unavailable).
180 “and Allan, Susan and her husband…”: Ibid.
181 “We hunted high and low…”: Ibid.
181 “bejeweled 6 by 9 foot room on 48 Street…”: Diane Arbus, “The Full Circle,”
Infinity, Feb. 1962.
181 “On his left hand…”: Ibid.
181 “He who searches for trash…”: Ibid. “a hermit and a very cheerful man…”: Harold Hayes to PB, interview, Aug. 17, 1978.
182 “Your last letter…”: Ibid.
182 “I am what I call…”: Diane Arbus, “The Full Circle,” Infinity, Feb. 1962.”
183 “These are five singular people…”: Ibid.
183 “Nancy did publish…”: Ilya Stanger to PB, interview, Jan. 6, 1981.
183 “I didn’t understand…”: Nancy White to PB, interview, Oct. 13, 1980.
183 “We sat around…”: Emile de Antonio to PB, interview, Nov. 19, 1981.
184 “We got a couple of cancellations…”: Paul Aison to PB, interview, July 1981.
184 “Dear Mr. Mitchell…”: Joseph Mitchell to PB, interview, Oct. 30, 1979.
184 “Howard was expected…”: Dorothy Evslin to PB, interview, May 8, 1979.
184 “Howard Nemerov is one of the best…”: Yale Review, June 1961.
185 “Daddy never praised…”: John Pauker to PB, interview, May 23, 1981.
185 “Daddy was absolutely devastated…”: Renée Sparkia to PB, interview, March 12, 1979.
185 “I really did love Diane…”: Ibid.
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187 “The most mysterious thing…”: Lisette Model to PB, interview, Feb. 6, 1979.
187 “I am very gloomy and scared…”: DA, postcard to the Meserveys, c. 1962.
187 “Diane always put…”: Tom Morgan to PB, interview, Sept. 6, 1979.
188 “Like he’d say five million Chinese…”: DA to Studs Terkel, interview, Dec. 1969.
188 “the wildest looniest time…”: Tom Wolfe, The New Journalism (Harper and Row, 1973), pp. 29-30.
188 “Dick keeps setting…”: John Putnam to PB, interview, July 20, 1978.
188 “Celebrities have the faces…”: Newsweek, Oct. 16, 1978.
189 “unearned intimacy”: Richard Avedon to Connie Goldman, interview on National Public Radio, March 31, 1977.
189 “Diane and I were so close…”: Jane Wilson to PB, interview, Dec. 18, 1978.
189 “‘But I had a visual…”: Richard Avedon to Connie Goldman, interview on National Public Radio, March 31, 1977.
190 “because Ike’s expression…”: John Putnam to PB, interview, July 3, 1979.
190 “Dick does everything with grace”: Newsweek, March 20, 1967.
190 “Avedon for all his phenomenal success…”: Lee Witkin to PB, interview, Nov. 19, 1981.
191 “because I no longer wanted to hide…”: Richard Avedon to Connie Goldman, interview on National Public Radio, March 31, 1977.
191 “Marvin loved La Dolce Vita…”: Dale McConathy to PB, interview, Nov. 14, 1979.
192 “They respected each other so much…”: Neil Selkirk to PB, interview, Oct. 12, 1982.
193 “These shreds…”: Doon Arbus, “Diane Arbus, Photographer,” MS Magazine, Oct. 1972.
193 “A photograph for Diane…”: Marvin Israel, interview on CBS-TV Camera Three, Nov. 12, 1972.
193 “But she showed me…”: Alen McWeeney to PB, interview, Dec. 5, 1980.
193 “Taking a portrait…”: John Gossage to PB, interview, May 23, 1981.
193 “a kind of calypso”: Ikko Narahara, tapes of Diane Arbus Class 1970-71.
193 “He’s really…”: Ibid.
194 “You know how every mother…”: Joseph Mitchell to PB, interview, May 9, 1980.
195 “You feel silly…”: John Putnam to PB, interview, July 19, 1979.
195 “They run the whole social gamut”: Ibid.
195 “I mean you were allowed…”: Mary Ellen Andrews to PB, interview, Dec. 1, 1978.
195 “You’re always jumping…”: Suzanne Mantell to PB, interview, Dec. 5, 1978.
195 “began to wonder…”: Ikko Narahara, tapes of Diane Arbus Class 1970-71.
195 “I couldn’t…”: Henry Wolf to PB, interview, Sept. 5, 1979.
196 “she introduced herself…”: Alan Levy, “Working with Diane Arbus: A Many-Splendored Experience,” Art News, Summer 1973.
197 “Deeyan taught me to look…”: Ibid.
197 “On the other hand…”: Ibid.
197 “Stay outa the sun…”: Dan Talbot to PB, interview, Oct. 13, 1980.
197 “She was genuinely surprised…”: Charlie Reynolds to PB, interview, Sept. 25, 1981.
198 “Diane would cook me an egg…”: Hiro to PB, interview, May 6, 1982.
198 “But it was her portraits…”: Ibid.
198 “It’s almost trancelike…”: Owen Edwards, “Hiro Who May Just Be the Great American Photographer,” American Photographer, Jan. 1982.
198 “practically one a month”: Robert Benton to PB, interview, Jan. 28, 1979.
198 “Diane would come up…”: Ibid.
199 “Diane made no concessions…”: David Newman to PB, interview, Jan. 28, 1979.
199 “strong—athletic…”: Paul Salstrom to PB, interview, July 1, 1982.
199 “Diane spent time…”: Ibid.
200 “producing like crazy…”: Robert Benton to PB, interview, Jan. 28, 1979.
200 “Actually, it was just a compound”: Tom Morgan to PB, interview, Sept. 6, 1979.
200 “Sometimes she’d whip up…”: Ibid.
200 “They were all married…”: Ibid.
201 “The whole thing is too personal…”: Joan Morgan to PB, phone interview, Aug. 9, 1980.
201 “It was twenty yards long…”: Paul Von Ringleheim to PB, interview, Jan. 22, 1980.
201 “I hate Paul’s mural…”: Tom Morgan to PB, interview, Sept. 6, 1979.
201 “This caused some consternation…”: Ibid.
201 “I always phoned D…”: Renée Sparkia to PB, interview, Aug. 2, 1978.
202 “Diane was delighted…”: May Eliot to PB, interview, Jan. 22, 1983.
202 “there were big wine goblets…”: Ibid.
202 “Diane was trying…”: Emile de Antonio to PB, interview, Nov. 11, 1980.
202 “I always saw…”: Robert Benton to PB, interview, Jan. 31, 1979.
202 “Allan was whispering something…”: Barbara Lamb to PB, interview, Oct. 1979.
204 “Plenty of wine…”: Chris von Wangenheim to PB, interview, Dec. 8, 1980.
204 “Diane looked straight at me…”: John A. Williams to PB, interview, Nov. 1979.
204 “Diane’s friendship…”: Ibid.
204 “Diane did ask…”: Ibid.
205 “She connected…”: Ibid.
205 “Sometimes I got the feeling…”: Ibid.
205 “liked men better…”: Pat Peterson to PB, interview, Feb. 22, 1979.
205 “Diane was many things…”: Marvin Israel, “Diane Arbus,” Infinity, Nov. 1972.
206 “I’ve never heard…”: Frederick Eberstadt to PB, interview, Feb. 5, 1979.
206 “Diane told me she wanted to have sex…”: John Putnam to PB, interview, July 20, 1978.
207 “Women of my generation…”: Kathy Aison to PB, interview, July 27, 1981.
207 “Because underneath Diane was…”: Emile de Antonio to PB, interview, Nov. 16, 1980.
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208 “We’d compare prints…”: Walter Silver to PB, interview, Oct. 23, 1981.
208 “I remember…”: John Putnam to PB, interview, July 20, 1978.
209 “He collects things…”: James Mellow, “Walker Evans Captures the Unvarnished Truth,” New York Times, Dec. 1, 1974.
209 “He’d juggle…”: Isabelle Story to PB, interview, Jan. 9, 1981.
209 “Marvin would…”: Ibid.
209 “some of the eccentric photographs…”: Ibid.
210 “March 3, 1963…”: from an unpublished letter of Walker Evans.
210 “Walker had a falling out…”: Isabelle Story to PB, interview, Jan. 9, 1981.
210 “Maybe it was because…”: Ibid.
210 “She seemed turned on…”: Ibid.
210 “Class is the deepest mystery…”: Susan Sontag, On Photography (Delta, 1977), pp. 54-55.
211 “I’m living proof…”: Andy Warhol and Pat Hackett, POPism: The Warhol ‘60s (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1980), p. 8.
211 “although Walker tried…”: Isabelle Story to PB, interview, Jan. 9, 1981. 211 “a terrific story…”: Diane Arbus, Aperture monograph (1972).
211 “where everybody sat around…”: Isabelle Story to PB, interview, Jan. 9, 1981.
212 “butts all over the place”: Renée Sparkia to PB, interview, March 12, 1979.
212 “Even Grandma Rose…”: Ibid.
212 “My father taught me…”: Howard Nemerov, Journal of the Fictive Life (Rutgers University Press, 1965), p. 70.
212 “David had been the big gun…”: Helen Quat to PB, interview, 1978.
213 “go in and ask…”: Renée Sparkia to PB, interview, March 11, 1979.
213 “American rites and customs…”: DA, Guggenheim application, 1963.
213 “mostly about Daddy”: Renée Sparkia to PB, interview, March 12, 1979.
213 “I didn’t really adore him”: DA to Studs Terkel, interview, Dec. 1969.
214 “businessman fantasies”: Ibid.
214 “The cold was my revenge…”: Howard Nemerov, Journal of the Fictive Life, p. 69.
214 “[My father] was a man…”: Ibid.
214 “He looks like Everyman”: Howard Nemerov to PB, interview, July 20, 1979.
214 “She was very upset…”: Harold Hayes to PB, interview, Aug. 17, 1978.
214 “Suddenly he woke up…”: DA to Studs Terkel, interview, Dec. 1969.
214 “really awful when my father died…”: Ibid.
215 “how [Daddy’s] energy seemed reapportioned…”: Ibid.
215 “in a whispery little voice…”: Ben Fernandez to PB, interview, Feb. 1, 1979.
215 “Mommy came…”: Renée Sparkia to PB, interview, March 12, 1979.
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216 “not an intimate…”: Arthur Sainer to PB, interview, April 3, 1981.
216 “really pissed off…”: Ibid.
216 “Diane would have…”: Bruce Davidson to PB, interview, Feb. 5, 1980.
216 “I remember…”: Arthur Sainer to PB, interview, April 3,1981.
217 “counting all the people…”: John Putnam to PB, interview, July 19, 1979.
217 “Diane really dug…”: Ibid.
217 “I’d tell Diane…”: Ibid.
217 “Triplets remind me…”: Peter Crookston to PB, interview, Dec. 20, 1979.
218 “that a snake charmer…”: Howard Nemerov to PB, interview, July 19, 1979.
218 “Everything is superb and breathtaking…”: Doon Arbus, “Diane Arbus, Photographer,” MS Magazine, Oct. 1972.
219 “burst into tears…”: Ibid.
219 “She called one morning…”: Joseph Mitchell to PB, interview, Oct. 30, 1979.
220 “We talked a great deal…”: Ibid.
220 “my brother’s and my…”: DA to Studs Terkel, interview, Dec. 1969.
220 “I hate intelligence…”: Howard Nemerov, Journal of the Fictive Life (Rutgers University Press, 1965), p. 92.
221 “A dream of…”: Ibid., p. 78.
222 “We had the same lexicon”: DA to Studs Terkel, interview, Dec. 1969.
222 “windowless elevator hall…”: Howard Nemerov, Journal of the Fictive Life, p. 90.
222 “who became a peculiar clue…”: DA to Studs Terkel, interview, Dec. 1969.
222 “She always seemed sad…”: Emile de Antonio to PB, interview, Oct. 10, 1980.
223 “I probably ended up…”: Ibid.
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224 “Diane was at every spectacle…”: Bob Adelman to PB, interview, Aug. 5, 1981.
224 “most of the protests…”: Ibid.
224 “She used to…”: Frederick Eberstadt to PB, interview, Feb. 5, 1979.
224 “Everybody can be famous for fifteen minutes”: Andy Warhol and Pat Hackett, POPism: The Warhol ‘60s (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1980).
225 “I’d stop at nothing…”: Mark Haven to PB, interview, July 17, 1981.
225 “Frazier and I talked…”: John Putnam to PB, interview, Oct. 8, 1980.
225 “She was peddling…”: Pat Rotter to PB, interview, Sept. 1979.
225 “the most unbelievable walk…”: Ibid.
226 “The lobby was like Hades”: Ibid.
226 “In the early sixties…”: Andy Warhol and Pat Hackett, POPism: The Warhol ‘60s, p. 223
227 “You actually get a sense…”: Isabelle Story to PB, interview, Jan. 9, 1981.
227 “This artist is daring…”: Walker Evans in Louis Kronenberger, ed., Quality: Its Image in the Arts (Atheneum, 1969), p. 172.
227 “they weren’t pictures…”: John Szarkowski to PB, interview, Aug. 9,1981.
228 “Diane had already…”: Ibid.
229 “Suddenly I could not…”: Bruce Davidson to PB, interview, Feb. 5, 1980.
229 “And I asked…”: Ibid.
230 “Diane and I…”: Ibid.
230 “I’ll never forget it…”: Ibid.
230 “You’re better taking pictures…”: Ibid.
231 “I don’t know…”: Ibid.
231 “God, those two women…”: Ibid.
231 “Lisette had been intimidated…’“: Bob Cato to PB, interview, Aug. 5, 1982.
231 “some are instinctive…”: Lisette Model to PB, interview, Feb. 6,1979.
232 “Whenever I photograph…”: Ibid.
232 “Oh—what she told me!…”: Ibid.
232 “She had to be flying…”: Ibid.
232 “Let me be exploited!” Lisette Model to Philip Lopate, interview.
232 “telling her of my plans…”: Peter Salstrom to PB, letter, Sept. 16, 1978.
233 “It was a sunny…”: Ibid.
233 “It was a deep friendship…”: Gay Talese to PB, interview, Feb. 1, 1980.
234 “She was obviously…”: Ibid.
234 “We exhibited…”: Yuben Yee to PB, interview, May 25, 1981.
234 “People were uncomfortable…”: Ibid.
235 “Diane Arbus’ pictures…”: Jim Hughes to PB, interview, July 1, 1982.
235 “I sometimes thought…”: John Putnam to PB, interview, March 18,1980.
235 “The whole area…”: Ibid.
236 “collective cave painting…”: documented by Mervyn Kurianski and Jon Naan, text by Norman Mailer, The Faith of Graffiti (An Alskog Book, 1974).
236 “It’s impossible to get out…”: John Putnam to PB, interview, March 18, 1980.
236 “She was gentle…”: John Gossage to PB, interview, May 24,1981.
237 “Dorothea Lange had the idea…”: Bob Adelman to PB, interview, Aug. 5, 1981.
237 “Diane was a terrific teacher…”: Paula Hutsinger to PB, interview, March 21, 1979.
237 “In another class…”: Ibid.
238 “He influenced Brassai…”: Ibid.
239 “Don’t you love freaks?”: Susan Brownmiller to PB, interview, Jan. 3,1980.
239 “Diane said…”: Presto the Fire Eater to PB, interview, Oct. 5, 1981.
239 “She walked off…”: Ibid.
240 “These are a new generation of photographers…”: John Szarkowski, wall label for “New Documents” show, March 1967.
241 “steadying hand”: DA, postcard to John Szarkowski, c. 1966.
241 “She imagined…”: Garry Winogrand to PB, interview, Nov. 10, 1981.
241 “Before that I’d been seeing her…”: Ibid.
241 “I thought her idea…”: Ibid.
241 “It was like…”: Chris von Wangenheim to PB, interview, Dec. 8, 1980.
241 “two Mamiya…”: John Putnam to PB, interview, March 18, 1980.
242 “Diane Arbus’ closest friend…”: Owen Edwards, “Marvin Israel, the Mentor Who Doesn’t Want to Be Famous,” Village Voice, Oct. 23, 1975.
242 “Diane doesn’t love…”: Gertrude Nemerov to PB, interview, July 24, 1978.
242 “my biggest influence…”: Owen Edwards, “Marvin Israel, the Mentor Who Doesn’t Want to Be Famous.”
242 “In public, Diane always kept her distance…”: Emile de Antonio to PB, interview, Nov. 9,1980.
242 “It was like a weird battle…”: Chris von Wangenheim to PB, interview, Dec. 8, 1980.
242 “Often it was as if she didn’t have any identity…”: Diane Cleaver to PB, phone interview, March 15, 1980.
242 “Marvin kept in touch…”: Carol Barilla to PB, interview, March 2,1980.
243 “Marvin making a lunch date with me…”: Bob Cato to PB, interview, Aug. 5, 1982.
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245 “I think I’ll buy this for Marvin…”: Pat Peterson to PB, interview, Feb. 22, 1979.
245 “quite controversial…”: Ibid. 245
245 “where an artist…”: Ibid.
245 “how much the trip…”: Ibid.
246 “Diane marching into my office…”: Geri Stutz to PB, interview, Dec. 9, 1981.
246 “Diane looked like an angel…”: Dorothy Seiberling, “Pinky’s Pictures,” New York Feb. 21, 1977.
246 “Get to the Museum…”: DA, postcard to Robert Meserveys. “For a while…”: Garry Winogrand to PB, interview, Nov. 10, 1981.
247 “what disturbed and disoriented people…”: Peter Bunnell, “Diane Arbus,” Print Collectors Newsletter, Jan/Feb.1977.
247 “Diane’s images reminded us…”: John Szarkowski to PB, interview, Aug. 9, 1981.
247 “It was like what happened…”: Saul Leiter to PB, interview, May 18, 1981.
247 “Her subject matter was just too difficult…”: Emile de Antonio to PB, interview, Nov. 19, 1981.
247 “unflinchingly…”: Max Kosloff, “Some Contemporary American Photographers,” Nation, May 6, 1967.
248 “One does not look…”: Marion Magid, “Diane Arbus in New Documents,” Arts, April 1,1967.
248 “It impresses me terribly…”: DA to Ann Ray Martin, interview, 1967.
248 “I work from awkwardness…”: Ibid.
248 “I thought how ordinary…”: Ibid.
249 “She looks as if she’d stopped…”: Ibid.
249 “The process of photography…”: Ibid.
249 “I love Cornell’s secrets…”: Ibid.
249 “I love what people say…”: Ibid.
249 “Photographing is not about…”: John Gossage to PB, interview, May 24,1981.
250 “Even though the water…”: Tina Fredericks to PB, interview, Oct. 23, 1979.
250 “they have secrets…”: Richard Lindner, Vogue, Aug. 15, 1967.
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252 “She hated…”: Garry Winogrand to PB, interview, Nov. 10,1981.
253 “I suggested…”: Joseph Mitchell to PB, interview, May 9, 1980.
253 “we still hadn’t met…”: Ibid.
254 “electric with anxiety”: Larry Shainberg to PB, interview, Oct. 12, 1982.
255 “Imitation was not for her…”: Doon Arbus, “Diane Arbus, Photographer,” MS Magazine, Oct. 1972.
255 “She refused to speak to me…”: Peter Hujar to PB, phone interview, March 4, 1980.
255 “In 1967 she was trying out…”: Garry Winogrand to PB, interview, Nov. 10,1981.
255 “instantly attracted”: Peter Crookston to PB, interview. May 24, 1980.
256 “You have a lovely daughter…”: Ibid.
256 “I was awakened…”: Ibid.
257 “If you sit on the inside…”: Peter Crookston to PB, interview, June 1982.
257 “because he was so beautiful”: Peter Crookston to PB, interview, Dec. 14, 1982.
257 “And, yes, I believed Diane…”: Ibid.
258 “There was a curious improbability…”: Marvin Israel, “Diane Arbus,” Infinity, Nov. 1972.
258 “You were so gentle…,”: DA to Peter Crookston, letter, c. 1967.
258 “like most speed freaks did”: Paul Salstrom to PB, phone interview, July 1, 1981.
259 “We had no plans”: Paul Salstrom to PB, phone interview, July 1, 1981.
259 “a heavy-set woman…”: Ibid.
260 “She kept gushing…”: Clay Felker to PB, interview, Jan. 10, 1979.
261 “Silver was spacy…”: Andy Warhol and Pat Hackett, POPism: The Warhol ‘60s (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1980), pp. 64-65.
262 “because I hadn’t been ashamed…”: Barbara Goldsmith to PB, interview, Dec. 1, 1979.
262 “He just gets you…”: Ibid.
262 “I’m not as mixed up…”: Ibid.
263 “we all got stoned on hash…”: Viva to PB, phone interview, Aug. 21, 1979.
263 “Diane rang the doorbell…”: Ibid.
264 “I made a terrible mistake…”: Clay Felker to PB, interview, Jan. 10, 1979.
264 “It is a cause célèbre”: DA to Peter Crookston, letter, c. 1968.
264 “watershed pictures…”: Tom Morgan to PB, interview, Sept. 6, 1979.
264 “Diane told me…”: Renée Sparkia to PB, phone interview, Aug. 2, 1978.
265 “The parents seem…”: Peter Crookston to PB, interview, June 1982.
265 “for what seemed like…”: Basha Poindexter to PB, interview, April 13, 1983.
265 “would shoot up…”: Sam Antupit to PB, interview, Jan. 11, 1979.
266 “I’m jealous of you, Shirley”: Shirley Fingerhood to PB, interview, Feb. 24, 1981.
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267 “I wanted to buy her a new fridge…”: Judith Mortenson to PB, interview, May 1981.
267 “Doon might fall in love with Dick…”: Pat Peterson to PB, interview, Feb. 22, 1979.
268 “And when I think…”: Doon Arbus, “Diane Arbus, Photographer,” MS Magazine, Oct. 1972.
268 “And Diane interceded for me…”: May Eliot to PB, interview, Jan. 22, 1983.
268 “battered people for her to photograph”: Saul Leiter to PB, interview, May 18, 1981.
269 “Diane pulled the prints…”: Eisa Bulgari, “Steve Laurence Remembering Diane Arbus,” Fire Island News Magazine, June 1980.
269 “Can you catch hepatitis?”: Cheech McKensie to PB, interview, May 2, 1982.
269 “She looked wasted”: Peter Crookston to PB, interview, May 24, 1980.
269 “toxic hepatitis…”: Doctors’ Hospital Medical Records, July 18, 1968.
269 “My husband is taking…”: Irene Fay to PB, interview, June 21, 1981.
269 “Diane looked really awful…”: Loring Eutemay to PB, interview, Feb. 1979.
270 “I always thought she…”: Seymour Krim to PB, interview, May 14, 1981.
270 “She snapped me…”: Ibid.
271 “She’d obviously learned a lot from Weegee…”: Victor D’Amico to PB, interview, July 29, 1980.
271 “She told me how close…”: May Eliot to PB, interview, Jan. 22, 1983.
271 “because she never told me…”: Ibid.
272 “She offered…”: Jill Freedman to PB, interview, Jan. 1982.
272 “so humid I felt…”: Bill Jay, Photographers Photographed, Monograph (Smith: Utah, 1983), p. 32.
272 “She was small and slim…”: Ibid.
272 “Now we can talk about photography…”: Ibid.
273 “Diane ate nothing…”: Lee Witkin to PB, interview, Nov. 19, 1981.
273 “I couldn’t say why…”: Bevan Davies to PB, interview, Nov. 24, 1981.
273 “I’d never seen her before…”: Ibid.
274 “We never had any long discussions…”: Lee Witkin to PB, interview, Nov. 18, 1981.
274 “Diane and I often talked about France…”: John Putnam to PB, interview, July 20, 1980.
275 “aura of aloneness”: Ibid.
276 “The situation is both real…”: Ikko Narahara tapes of Diane Arbus Class 1970-71.
276 “no erotic pictures…”: Neil Selkirk to PB, interview, Oct. 12, 1982.
276 “It was of a couple…”: Harold Hayes to PB, interview, Aug. 18, 1978.
277 “a great many incorrect stones…”: Neil Selkirk to PB, interview, Oct. 12, 1982.
277 “photograph a host of shoppers…”: Carol Troy to PB, interview, June 10, 1981.
278 “I knew her brother…”: Studs Terkel to PB, interview, Nov. 13, 1980.
278 “but she kept…”: Ibid.
278 “My father was a kind of self-made man…”: DA to Studs Terkel, interview, Dec. 1969.
278 “I always had governesses…”: Ibid.
280 “How did the public experience…”: Ibid.
280 “I was aware…”: Ibid.
280 “I had never seen poverty…”: Ibid.
280 “incredible stories…”: Ibid.
280 “as well as Walker Evans…”: Gene Thornton, “Narrative Works—and Arbus,” New York Times, Aug. 31, 1980.
280 “You saw…”: DA to Studs Terkel, interview, Dec. 1969.
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281 “She seemed to be…”: Garry Winogrand to PB, interview, Nov. 10, 1981.
281 “funny”: Shirley Fingerhood to PB, interview, Feb. 24, 1981.
282 “This Diane Arbus…”: Irving Mansfield to PB, phone interview, Dec. 20, 1978.
282 “It was seen all over the world…”: Ibid.
283 “Diane expected…”: Shirley Fingerhood to PB, interview, Feb. 24, 1981.
283 “We always flew…”: Margo Feiden to PB, interview, Jan. 26, 1982.
284 “then she chose Marvin.”: Lisette Model to PB, interview, Feb. 6, 1979.
284 “Marvin Israel introduced us…”: Nancy Grossman to PB, interview, May 27,1980.
287 “After Sarraute got so nervous…”: Dale McConathy to PB, interview, Nov. 14, 1979.
287 “Diane almost always…”: Barbara Brown to PB, phone interview, March 9, 1980.
288 “I hardly recognized her…”: Peter Crookston to PB, interview, Jan. 4, 1982.
288 “all my tears made it better…”: DA to Peter Crookston, letter.
288 “for terminally ill patients…”: Francis Wyndham to PB, letter, June 15, 1982.
289 “to spend the night…”: Ibid.
289 “until we saw…”: May Eliot to PB, interview, Jan. 22, 1983.
289 “What a lovely ring…”: Jane Eliot to PB, interview, April 21, 1979.
290 “There were no more freaks…”: John Putnam to PB, interview, July 17, 1980.
290 “as all artists are schizophrenic”: Lisette Model to PB, interview, Feb. 6, 1979.
291 “nothing about her life…”: A. D. Coleman, “The Mirror Is Broken,” Village Voice, Aug. 5, 1978.
291 “very very boring”: Peter Crookston to PB, interview, May 20, 1980.
291 “and without any prompting…”: Gail Sheehy to PB, interview, May 8, 1980.
291 “She blew everybody’s mind…”: Stephen Frank to PB, phone interview, May 26, 1981.
292 “It was Blow-Up time”: Chris von Wangenheim to PB, interview, Dec. 8,1980.
292 “I think Diane saw her shrink”: John Putnam to PB, July 20,1980.
293 “What no one realized…”: Calvin Tompkins, Off the Wall: Robert Rauschenberg and the Art World of Our Time (Penguin, 1980), p. 281.
294 “novel in progress,” New York Magazine, March 13, 1978, “The Strange Universe of Cosmos” by Tom Bentkowski.
294 “An ant farm…”: DA to Peter Crookston, letter.
294 “Every artist…”: Thalia Seltz to PB, phone interview, Dec. 1979.
294 “Everybody was into primal experience…”: David Gillison to PB, phone interview, Dec. 1979.
294 “We’d discuss work and life…”: Thalia Seltz to PB, phone interview, Dec. 1979.
295 “Diane was gentle…”: Al Squilaco to PB, interview, Aug. 1980.
296 “I was going to be on the cover”: Ti Grace Atkinson to PB, interview, June 20,1980.
296 “Suddenly Diane asked me…”: Ibid.
296 “The stories were heartbreaking”: Ibid.
297 “I felt Diane was defensive…”: Ibid.
297 “It was absolutely exhausting…”: Ibid.
297 “We both wanted a picture of me…”: Ibid.
298 “everything was showing…”: Ibid.
298 “She seemed to be drowning…”: Ibid.
298 “I’m a photographer”: John Putnam to PB, interview, July 20, 1980.
298 “Diane began with the file…”: Eugene Ferrera to PB, interview, April 1979.
300 “A lot of people…”: Hiro to PB, interview. May 6, 1982.
300 “I had to read this review…”: Richard Avedon to Connie Goldman, interview on National Public Radio, March 31, 1977.
300 “I told her I thought Marvin could…”: T. Hartwell to PB, phone interview, Sept. 17, 1982.
300 “a glass dome and a swimming pool…”: DA to Peter Crookston, letter.
301 “I am still collecting things…”: DA, speech at American Society of Magazine Photographers when she accepted the Robert Levitt Award “for outstanding achievement,” Sept. 1970.
301 “She was already a myth…”: Susan Brockman to Anne Tucker in The Woman’s Eye, selections from the work of Gertrude Kasbier, Diane Arbus and others, edited and with an introduction by Anne Tucker (Knopf, 1973).
301 “You couldn’t forget those startling pictures…”: Mark Haven to PB, interview, July 22, 1982.
301 “Diane’s pictures appealed to the mind…”: Jerry Ulesmann to PB, phone interview, Sept. 1981.
301 “The room was overcrowded”: Mary Ellen Andrews to PB, interview, Dec. 1, 1978.
301 “Nobody’s going to love your pictures…”: Susan Brockman, interview on radio station WRVR, Fall 1972.
301 “The class was not simply about photography…”: Anne Tucker to PB, phone interview, Dec. 11, 1981.
302 “It was very significant…”: Neil Selkirk, interview on radio station WRVR, Fall 1972.
302 “Diane wanted us to tell…”: Anne Tucker to PB, phone interview, Dec 11, 1981
302 “I was walking up the aisle…”: Ibid.
302 “Diane was a little taken aback…”: Eva Rubinstein to PB, interview, Sept. 12, 1982.
303 “Okay—let’s do it right now…”: Diana Edkins to PB, interview, March 20, 1979.
304 “And Cerf presented his face…”: Suzanne Mantell to PB, interview, Dec. 5, 1978.
304 “like they had lightbulbs…”: Ikko Narahara, tapes of Diane Arbus Class 1970-71.
304 “an adventure”: Eva Rubinstein to PB, interview, Sept. 12, 1982.
304 “Choosing a project…”: Ibid.
304 “photograph something real…”: Suzanne Mantell to PB, interview, Dec. 5, 1978.
305 “I’ve never taken a picture…”: Mary Ellen Andrews to PB, interview, Dec. 1,1978.
305 “a photographer has to be…”: Mark Haven to PB, interview, July 22,1982.
305 “whom you get confused…”: Suzanne Mantell to PB, interview, Dec. 5, 1978.
305 “I can tell you a picture…”: Ibid.
305 “in great spirits”: Anne Tucker to PB, phone interview.
305 “It’s about live”: Peter Crookston to PB, interview, Dec. 1982.
306 “was extremely serious…”: Life Library of Photography: The Art of Photography—Responding to the Subject, p. 110.
306 “Diane was obviously very moved…”: T. Hartwell to PB, phone interview, Sept. 17, 1982.
307 “Brassai taught me something…”: Ikko Narahara tapes of Diane Arbus Class 1970-71.
307 “What is it?…”: Ruth Ansel to PB, interview, Aug. 1978.
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309 “because Shelley didn’t seem…”: Thalia Seltz to PB, interview, c. 1979.
309 “easy jobs…”: Sam Antupit to PB, interview, Jan. 11, 1979.
309 “The press tent…”: DA to Peter Crookston letter.
310 “What did I write?”: Alex Eliot to PB, interview, July 20, 1980.
310 “Not childhood…”: Alex Eliot, Zen Edge (Seabury Press, 1979), p. 67.
311 “Arbus was a central and crucial figure…”: Walter Hopps to PB, phone interview, July 8, 1981.
311 “Her name was rapidly acquiring…”: Hilton Kramer, New York Times, Aug. 5, 1972.
312 “a Wall Street banker type…”: Peter Beard to PB, interview, Nov. 22, 1982.
312 “Once I dreamed…”: Art News, May 1971.
313 “There are two kinds of nudist camps”: Jerry Leibling to PB, phone interview, Aug. 1981.
313 “Everything was confrontational…”: Ibid.
314 “a rosepetal-soft…”: Germaine Greer to PB, interview, Oct. 25, 1979.
315 “I said I would buy…”: Tina Fredericks to PB, interview, June 1980.
315 “She made me put on…”: Devon Fredericks to PB, interview, June 1980.
316 “I didn’t believe her…”: Larry Shainberg to PB, interview, Sept. 29, 1982.
316 “I’d fallen in love with the darkroom…”: Marge Neikrug to PB, interview, Dec. 3, 1981.
316 “Mommy, Mommy…”: Gertrude Nemerov to PB, interview, July 22, 1978.
316 “Can’t you find anyone…”: John Gossage to PB, interview, May 24, 1981.
317 “The beautiful glass box…”: Lee Witkin to PB, interview, Nov. 17,1981.
317 “In poetry the art itself…”: Howard Nemerov to PB, interview, July 20, 1978.
318 “Howard Nemerov is a minor poet…”: Bernard Malamud to PB, interview, March 5,1980.
318 “Diane seemed in a very good mood…”: Howard Nemerov to PB, interview, July 20, 1978.
318 “she was terribly alone…”: Ibid.
318 “She arrived Sunday afternoon…”: Nancy Grossman to PB, interview, March 27, 1980.
320 “Suddenly, for no reason…”: Shirley Clarke to PB, phone interview, Sept. 1980.
320 “She was carrying a flag…”: Walter Silver to PB, interview, Oct. 23, 1981.
320 “acute barbiturate poisoning”: Dr. Michael Baden to PB, interview, May 14, 1979.
321 “Oh, I wish I could be an artist like Diane!”: Frederick Eberstadt to PB, interview, Feb. 5, 1979.
322 “To D—Dead by Her Own Hand”: The Collected Poems of Howard Nemerov (University of Chicago Press, 1977), p. 431.