Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus (2006)
We’re in 1958, in New York. Diane Arbus is a frustrated house wife, living a normal life with her husband Allen and their two daughters. They have a successful commercial photography business, sponsored by Diane’s parents, Allen being the photographer.
All her life is about to get thrown into a mysterious swirl of strange events and people when a new neighbor moves into the building. She becomes fascinated with this weird masked man and starts a bizarre relationship with him. In this new world populated by transvestites, dwarves and others living on the fringes of society she finds her passion for photography and after the death of her lover she starts traveling to take fully advantage of her new found passion.
That would be a short description of one of the most interesting movies I’ve seen lately. I didn’t include many details, since I wouldn’t want to spoil the viewing pleasure of those who haven’t watched the movie yet. Diane Arbus is one of my favorite photographers and that’s what made me curious about seeing Fur – and i am glad to admit that i wasn’t at all disappointed. Her work captures the most discrete, disturbing and interesting parts of society and the movie -even if an imaginary story – underlines just that.
Instead of me trying to write a few meaningless words about her life and work, I will let her photographs speak for themselves.
More about Fur here
More information about Diane Arbus here.
More of her works here
Alex P said,
July 7, 2009 at 12:19 pm
nice. awesome pictures. i have to see the movie
florethoughts said,
July 7, 2009 at 12:23 pm
I’ll bring you the dvd tomorrow if you want to