from Diane Arbus

Mid-August, 1968

Diane Arbus, “Girl in her circus costume” in Maryland, 1970.

Mid-August 1968

It is so pretty and calm here. Rabbits and pheasants and chipmunks alternately appear and disappear on the front lawn in front of me and I am learning such serenity… Once in a while I feel a vague anxiety about what is happening around where I am supposed to be but then I remember that I am ‘not supposed to have any responsibilities.’ So I look once more out upon the lawn and see who is chasing whom and hope for the best."

—Diane Arbus, in a letter to Carlotta Marshall

Read more in Diane Arbus: a Chronology 1923-1971, by Elisabeth Sussman and Doon Arbus, Aperture: New York (p. 72).

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