Diane Arbus (1923 - 1971) More plausibly, Arbus's photographys-with their acceptance of the appalling-suggest a naivete which is both coy and siniter, for it is based on distance, on privilege, on a feeling that what the viewer is asked to look at is really other. Buñuel, when asked once why he made movies, said that it was "to show that thi is not the best of all possible worlds." Arbus took ph..