was to "super-impose the life on the work," a process that he sees as "mutually illuminating" for both her personality and her work. With his focus on the personality of his subjects, Schultz, who curates a series of books on the "inner lives" of artists, writers and political figures for the Oxford University Press, has unsurprisingly long since been frozen out by the Arbus estate.
As Schultz argues, secrets--their telling, their emotional currency, their exchange--were a fascination that began in Arbus's childhood and "the dominant metaphor in her life."
from Olivia Cole: The DAily Beast: Diane Arbus' Dark Secrets
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