Diane Arbus was an American photographer who was famous for photographing intense black and white photographs of strange and very unusual people. Often her subjects look sad, conflicted or physically abnormal. But they do not try to hide their insecurities. They openly stare at the camera. One art expert said Diane Arbus turned photography inside out. Instead of looking at her subjects, she made them look at her. Arbus's work has provoked controversy; for example, Norman Mailer was quoted in 1971 as saying "Giving a camera to Diane Arbus is like putting a live grenade in the hands of a child, which is slightly ironic and possibly her most famous photograph was ‘Child with toy hand grenade in Central Park’
The photograph shows a young boy tensely holding his thin arms close by his side, clenched tightly in one hand is a toy grenade and his other hand is held in a very strange, awkward claw-like shape with a very strained expression on his face. Arbus captured this photograph by having the boy stand while moving around him, claiming she was trying to find the right angle. The boy became impatient and told her to "Take the picture already!” His expression shows his impatience with her, however in the other pictures on the contact sheet he appears a happy child.
The photograph shows a young boy tensely holding his thin arms close by his side, clenched tightly in one hand is a toy grenade and his other hand is held in a very strange, awkward claw-like shape with a very strained expression on his face. Arbus captured this photograph by having the boy stand while moving around him, claiming she was trying to find the right angle. The boy became impatient and told her to "Take the picture already!” His expression shows his impatience with her, however in the other pictures on the contact sheet he appears a happy child.
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