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
A Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English and former military intelligence officer Paul Beale (who had contributed military slang to Partridge's efforts since 1974), and the lexicographical work was continued. The Eighth edition of "A Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English" was published by Macmillan as a single-volume work in 1984. Beale also published in 1990 a condensed version of the dictionary, titled "Partridge's Concise Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English". In 2004, editors Tom Dalzell and Terry Victor published "The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English", a two-volume update of the dictionary. Dalzell and Victor were chosen by the publisher Routledge to update the