An artist that i admire so much is Diane Arbus.

She was a photographer born in the United States, New York in 1923.

During the 1940’s  she worked as a  photographer in “Vogue” magazine. However, she produced her most recognizable work in the sixties, during the height of the counterculture.

I find her work very interesting , because it always represents the “b side” of the United States society, the marginal ways  of life, ultimately, these things that never shown us, that which is unpresentable and left out for the establishment. (mental patients, sexual minorities, prostitutes, people with deformed bodies, etc.)

Her photographs always are in black and white, with high contrast between lights and shadows, which produces a strange sensation, like a mystery atmosphere. The personages always appear in first plane and looking at the camera, like defying the viewer.

One of my favorite images is a called “In the Park", where there are two pairs of personages sitting on a bench in Central Park. In the left side there are two transvestites dressed in lace and erotic clothing’s with dark tones, and the right side there are two typical ladies dressed in white with a attitude of strangeness front of transvestites.  I think this image is fascinating, is like a mixture of two universes totally different.