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Diane Arbus’ photographic project

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“I want to photograph the considerable ceremonies of our present because we tend while living here and now to perceive only what is random and barren and formless about it.

While we regret that the present is not like the past and despair of its ever becoming the future, its innumerable inscrutable habits lie in wait for their meaning.” [….]

Diane Arbus, start of 1963 Guggenheim Grant proposal.