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"It's always seemed to me that photography tends to deal with facts whereas film tends to deal with fiction. The best example I know is when you go to the movies and you see two people in bed, you're willing to put aside the fact that you perfectly well know that there was a director and a cameraman and assorted lighting people all in that same room and the two people in bed weren't really alone. But when you look at a photograph, you can never put that aside."Kimmelman, Michael (9 January 2004), "Diane Arbus, a Hunter Wielding a Lens", The New York Times retrieved: 7 November 2018

— Diane Arbus

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets ""It's always seemed to me that photography tends to deal with facts whereas film tends to deal with fiction. The best example I know is when you go to the movies and you see two people in bed, you're willing to put aside the fact that you perfectly well know that there was a director and a cameraman and assorted lighting people all in that same room and the two people in bed weren't really alone. But when you look at a photograph, you can never put that aside."Kimmelman, Michael (9 January 2004), "Diane Arbus, a Hunter Wielding a Lens", The New York Times retrieved: 7 November 2018" in the context of "" to mean that wisdom is timeless.

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Diane Arbus

About Diane Arbus

Diane Arbus (/diːˈæn ˈɑːrbəs/; March 14, 1923 – July 26, 1971) was an American photographer.