Lecture: Geoff Dyer on Diane Arbus

I attended a lecture at the National Gallery of Scotland entitled "What is the Difference between a Flower and a Weed?: Geoff Dyer on Diane Arbus". There is already much on the web about Arbus and so I will not try to repeat it all here, this is just to give a taster of the lecture.

First up in the lecture was the revelation that Diane is to be pronounced D-Anne, news to me!

The talk discussed photographs of Diane Arbus, for example here in action at a beauty pageant:

Photographs by Diane Arbus, known for photographing deviant and marginal people or the ugly and surreal. Identical Twins, Roselle, N.J. 1967:

And photographs by other artists having some parallels with Diane Arbus, here an image by August Sander:

So what finally was the "Difference between a Flower and a Weed"? Well it was found in a fortune cookie and the answer was revealed to be "A judgement".

More on Diane Arbus:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diane_Arbus

You can find out what's on at the National Galleries of Scotland at:
http://www.nationalgalleries.org/whatson