Nomar Alonso
Diane Arbus "Masked Woman in a Wheelchair"
1970
I chose this image because it was the first one that caught and held my attention. I had been scrolling through a book of Diane Arbus' photos and this was the only photo that made me question what was going on. It is such a simple photo, yet there is so much missing. Was the woman simply moving along with the mask? Was the mask given to her for the photo? Was she posing for the photo or hiding her face from the camera? where was she going?
I read a little About Diane Arbus and found in a short documentary that she felt different emotions when she looked into the glass of a camera. No matter what happened on the other side of that glass, she was simply amazed. I think thats what I want this photo to mean to me. I want to run into a situation like she did in this photo and I want to experience what she experienced.
