Diane Arbus

Diane Arbus spent most of her career photographing people at the margins of American society - circus performers, nudists, transgender women, twins - with a directness and formal sympathy that had little precedent. She was among the first photographers to receive a Guggenheim Fellowship, in 1963. Her posthumous retrospective at MoMA in 1972 drew more visitors than any photography exhibition the museum had staged to that point.