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PHOTOGRAPHER

Diane Arbus

1923 - 1971

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Diane Arbus (; née Nemerov; March 14, 1923 – July 26, 1971) was an American photographer. She photographed a wide range of subjects including strippers, carnival performers, nudists, people with dwarfism, children, mothers, couples, elderly people, and middle-class families. She photographed her subjects in familiar settings: their homes, on the street, in the workplace, in the park. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Diane Arbus has received more than 2,332,377 page views. Her biography is available in 38 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 34 in 2019). Diane Arbus is the 13th most popular photographer (up from 15th in 2019), the 1,054th most popular biography from United States (up from 1,408th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular American Photographer.

Diane Arbus is most famous for her photographs of people on the margins of society.

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  • 61.77

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 38

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.51

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.43

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among PHOTOGRAPHERS

Among photographers, Diane Arbus ranks 13 out of 105. Before her are Robert Doisneau, Dora Maar, Vivian Maier, Heinrich Hoffmann, Claude Cahun, and Alfred Stieglitz. After her are Julia Margaret Cameron, Felice Beato, Annie Leibovitz, Nobuyoshi Araki, Brassaï, and Wilhelm von Gloeden.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1923, Diane Arbus ranks 37. Before her are Nguyễn Văn Thiệu, Antoni Tàpies, Pope Shenouda III of Alexandria, Frederick Herzberg, René Girard, and Mauno Koivisto. After her are Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya, Morris, Alice Miller, Cliff Robertson, Jorge Semprún, and Edgar F. Codd. Among people deceased in 1971, Diane Arbus ranks 30. Before her are D. B. Cooper, François Duvalier, Franz Stangl, Lothar Rendulic, Wendell Meredith Stanley, and Jacobo Árbenz. After her are Pier Angeli, Violet Jessop, Johannes Frießner, Max Steiner, W. O. Bentley, and Bernardo Houssay.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Diane Arbus ranks 1,054 out of 18,182. Before her are Michelle Obama (1964), Jerome Karle (1918), Harvey Milk (1930), Burt Young (1940), Ellen DeGeneres (1958), and John Updike (1932). After her are Dennis Rodman (1961), Powers Boothe (1948), John Grisham (1955), Daniel Goleman (1946), Noah Gordon (1926), and Paul Lauterbur (1929).

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Among PHOTOGRAPHERS In United States

Among photographers born in United States, Diane Arbus ranks 3. Before her are Vivian Maier (1926) and Alfred Stieglitz (1864). After her are Annie Leibovitz (1949), Richard Avedon (1923), Robert Mapplethorpe (1946), Irving Penn (1917), Lewis Hine (1874), Edward Weston (1886), Berenice Abbott (1898), Paul Strand (1890), and Carl Van Vechten (1880).

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