Nottingham Contemporary

Cas and Katty and I went to the Diane Arbus exhibition at the Nottingham Contemporary. This is the blurb:

Diane Arbus is one of the most important photographers of the twentieth century, an influential figure whose compellingly honest style of photography paved the way for the work of contemporary photographers and artists.

ARTIST ROOMS comprises of 69 black-and-white photographs from across Arbus’s career, both her earliest work in 35mm and her characteristic square-format images, and ranging from her best-known portraits to rarely-seen images.

I have to say the images are of some 'interesting' looking people. However she is clearly hugely influential as there are load of lectures going on around the exhibition - including a lecture with Germaine Greer - who was one of Arbus's subjects around the time the Female Enuch was published.

Not sure what I think about the images of people from 1970's Learning Disability institutions. It was Arbus's ambition to photograph 'everybody' - including people not included in society. I am not sure if it is abit voyeuristic though..... hmmmm food for futher thought!

We went to the 'Largest Photo Booth in the World' whilst we were there. I am not sure that this is a factually correct statement - Norris Mcwerter should be called - but anyway the picture is above and is current displayed on the Nottingham Contemporary website and will form part of the exhibition. I wonder if people in 100 years will see it and think how fantastic we are?!?!