Portraits by Diane Arbus

These are all really special photographs. They have the special Diane Arbus touch; you won't mistake them for Yousuf Karsh!

Jorge Luis Borges in Central Park, 1969

Jane Jacobs by Diane Arbus, New York, 1965. She's with her son Ned.

James Brown at home in curlers, Queens. An undated portrait by Diane Arbus.

Thomas Hoving by Diane Arbus, 1967. Hoving was Director of The Metropolitan Museum of Art from 1967 to 1977. I recently read Michael Gross's book Rogues' Gallery: The Secret Story of the Lust, Lies, Greed, and Betrayals That Made the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and I think Arbus has really captured this particular rogue.

Agnes Martin by Diane Arbus, 1966

Erik Bruhn and Rudolf Nureyev by Diane Arbus, 1963

Senator Eugene McCarthy by Diane Arbus. This was taken on election night, 1968.

Marcel Duchamp with his wife Alexina Sattler at home, 1965

Susan Sontag and her son David by Diane Arbus, 1965

Mae West by Diane Arbus, Santa Monica, 1965

Norman Mailer at home in Brooklyn, 1963. Mailer was referring to Diane Arbus's portraits in particular, when he said, "Giving a camera to Diane Arbus is like a giving a hand grenade to a baby."

Diane Arbus, Self-portrait, pregnant, 1945. She was pregnant with her daughter Doon, who was born April 3, 1945.