Diane Arbus : Sanctum Sanctorum at Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco

Brenda Diana Duff Frazier, 1938 Debutante of the Year, at home, Boston, Mass. 1966 © the Estate of Diane Arbus

Diane Arbus: Sanctum Sanctorum is an exhibition of forty-five photographs made in private places across New York, New Jersey, California, and London between 1961 and 1971.

Through her singular combination of intelligence, charisma, intuition, and courage, Diane Arbus was frequently invited into homes and other private realms seldom seen by strangers. Though made in intimate settings, her photographs evidence no sense of intrusion or trespass. Instead, they reveal an unspoken exchange between photographer and subject, a moment of recognition in which confidences emerge freely and without judgment.

Arbus’s desire to know people embraced a vast spectrum of humanity. Her subjects in Sanctum Sanctorum include debutantes, nudists, celebrities, aspiring celebrities, socialites, transvestites, babies, widows, circus performers, lovers, female impersonators, and a blind couple in their bedroom.

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