Diane Arbus's Life Onscreen

Diane Arbus photograph of Brooklyn family

Last week, it was announced that Samantha Morton would play photographer Diane Arbus in a film about Arbus's life called Fur. Steven Shainberg, who directed Secretary, will direct, and Secretary screenwriter Erin Cressida Wilson will write this screenplay, based on the Arbus biography by Patricia Bosworth. Gothamist is pretty excited, because we love Arbus's work (especially photographs of NY life), and Morton has the kind of attitude that could pull this off. Here's an Arbus bio from About.com, plus two galleries of her work: One from the SF Moma and the other from Temple University. And more books with photographs by Arbus.

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By Jen Chung in Arts and Events on August 25, 2004 5:22 PM

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ba

diane arbus is my most favorite photographer of all time. they better do a good job portraying her, or i am going to be pissed.

dirk

I *love* Samantha Morton. She was fantastic in "In America". She's a very under-appreciated actor. I like Arbus' photographs and "Secretary" was a great movie, so all-in-all, I think this movie has fantastic potential.

not a fan

I agree with Susan Sontag on this one-- I think Arbus was condescending toward her subjects and made them out to be freaks, just for the ironic thrill of it. I'll see the movie though, 'cuz I love Samantha and hope they do a good job of highlighting Arbus's controversial work.

Jen

Oh, wow, cool fact, thanks. I IMDB'd him, and he also played Uncle Arthur on Curb Your Enthusiasm!

la depressionada

Her (ex?) husband (pictured) played the shrink on MASH. For some reason watching him always made me feel incredibly voyeuristic. Her work is fantastic.