Diane Arbus Diane Arbus Diane Arbus (; March 14, 1923 – July 26, 1971) was an American photographer. Although Arbus’s most famous subjects were outsiders such as transgender people, strippers, carnival performers, nudists, dwarves, and other marginalized people, she was equally drawn to subjects as ordinary as children, mothers, couples, old people, and middle-class families. She photographed her subjects in familiar settings: their homes, on the street, in the workplace, in the park. In his 2003 "New York Times Magazine" article, "Arbus Reconsidered," Arthur Lubow states, "She was fascinated by people who were visibly creating their own identities—cross-dressers, nudists, sideshow performers, tattooed
Chamber of Art and Curiosities, Ambras Castle of samurai armor, a Ryukyu bowl, and a silk painting from China. The Ambras collection contains a number of unique portraits, and some of the subjects were perceived at the time as "Wonder of Nature". The painters are not known. Giants and dwarfs, people with hirsutism and others, are shown, including: Vlad III the Impaler's depiction was painted about one century after his reign and represents one of his earliest portraits. It is intended not only to show him as a ruler but also to be a "psychogram of evil". The collection has a painting of Petrus Gonsalvus and his