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April 05, 2005

Diane Arbus, Parkinson's and Weird People

My dad says he has Parkinson's because he parks so much. It's a good joke if you know my dad, who has eight or nine vehicles on his property here in Grand Junction, Colorado, and has had, he tells me, up to fourteen. In my junior high days he collected Corvairs and acquired eleven or so before the lust wore off. He's horsetraded, tweaked and sold hundreds of cars and trucks in his time and as much as his wife would like him to be finished with this obsession he is not and won't be until his heart stops as completely as the Ranchero he has out back.

I popped into the Diane Arbus exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum just before I left New York. It was packed and easy to listen to other people's conversation. Such as:

"I will decide, it's not up to you," said one woman into a forbidden cell phone that she used nonetheless. And

"She became her art." And

"How did you get in places to take these weird photos?" But many of the people in these photos did not seem weird, just dated from being fixed forever in the 1960s. One of my favorite photos shows the 1938 Debutante of the year at home in Boston. It is 1965 and the elegant, now old woman is in a satin dressing gown and white fur bed jacket lying against the pillows in her bed. A cigarette is in her right hand, she looks straight at the camera and you know that her live, while prosperous, is not the life she somehow expected it to be during that glittering year of gowns and guys and parties. My other favorite shows a Mexican dwarf in his hotel room. He's wearing a mustache and a hat. There's a bottle of booze on a shelf immediately to the right of his shoulder, and he looks more serene and easy in his sking than anyone I've ever seen.

Back in Brooklyn, while walking my friends' elderly dog around the block, I passed a young woman, a dwarf, and her family. The average-size dad took baby from mom and walked into the apartment while mom struggled to get the heavy stoller with groceries up three steps. You got it? he asked. I got it, she replied.

Seeing her made me realize why the comment about "weird photos" at the museum upset me a bit. The subjects in Diane Arbus' photos may seem odd or weird but they are not odder or weirder than we are. It's more comfortable, of course, to pretend they are. But most of us carry around plenty of irregularities. They're just as real and warped if not always as visible.

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