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Statue of Diane Arbus Installed in Central Park

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I used to think the TLR was the perfect street camera - people didn’t know what they were and couldn’t tell when you were taking a picture. Then the Vivian Meier movie came out. Now this.

I actually like that the statue is on the ground and more life-like.
 
A fitting monument, and I'm sure Mamiya geeks can't wait to bring their C220 to take her portrait (ok, me too, even though I have a C330).

It says the statue is temporary, so anybody knows where it's headed next?
 
First time I've seen a statue dedicated to a photographer. Great. One of my favorite photographers too. Sorta surprising, as I doubt that that 1 out of 100 people know who she was. It's unfortunate to see the "statue" done in that faux, Disney style realism, and the proportions of the woman and the camera are way out of whack.

This sort of low effort sculpture shows up on college campuses, malls, etc far too much these days, but it's an economic decision. The city isn't going to want to pay what a known sculptor would charge.
 
momus said:
First time I've seen a statue dedicated to a photographer. Great. One of my favorite photographers too. Sorta surprising, as I doubt that that 1 out of 100 people know who she was. It's unfortunate to see the "statue" done in that faux, Disney style realism, and the proportions of the woman and the camera are way out of whack.

This sort of low effort sculpture shows up on college campuses, malls, etc far too much these days, but it's an economic decision. The city isn't going to want to pay what a known sculptor would charge.
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She was a small woman and the Mamiya (it was a C330 I believe) is big.
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Wikipedia calls it a Mamiyaflex. Arrgghh!

Looks like a C33 to me.
 
pbromaghin said:
Wikipedia calls it a Mamiyaflex. Arrgghh!

Looks like a C33 to me.
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As it has a crank wind, it can't be a Mamiyaflex or C2.
Either a C3 or C33.
 
Definitely not a Hasselblad.
 
Totally anecdotal and vaguely related, but I only recently realized that growing up in the 70s and having watched every singled M*A*S*H episode made I knew her ex-husband's work - he played psychiatrist Sydney Freedman on the show - decades before I knew of hers.
 
Oddly enough she did much of her photography in Washington Square Park, not Central Park. Washington Square is in Greenwich Village, now surrounded by NYU. Still plenty of weirdos there.
 
Deffinitely a C33. The top piece in front of the ground glass was black on the C330. And check out the Twiggy jacket and Nancy Sinatra go-go boots.
 
macfred said:
This is an original, albeit very free translation ... :D
I am inclined to say that we are talking about fishmongers.
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Macfred is right, it translates as fishmongers' gate. This is where seafood was brought from the sea shore to Paris.
 
I am not an expert on Diane Arbus
Is that statue a good likeness of her.?

Not saying it looks like Joni Mitchell.........but the face on the statue does not seem like most of the pictures i have seen of her.
Kind of makes her look like an old man.
I hope i am in the minority

It resembles her, but is an unflattering look IMHO
 
CMoore said:
I am not an expert on Diane Arbus
Is that statue a good likeness of her.?

Not saying it looks like Joni Mitchell.........but the face on the statue does not seem like most of the pictures i have seen of her.
Kind of makes her look like an old man.
I hope i am in the minority

It resembles her, but is an unflattering look IMHO
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It seems a good likeness from all the photos I have seen of her. BTW, the sculptress Gillian Wearing is also a photographer and film maker, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gillian_Wearing
 
Okay..it's a C33...note the distance scale on the right hand side. On a C330 the distance scale is on the left hand side of the camera.
 
Only on Photrio would a thread about a Diane Arbus statue turn into an equipment discussion :smile:
 
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