The following passage is from Diane Arbus: A Chronology, 1923 – 1971.
Self stumbled across this book in April, after attending an Arbus exhibit at the Fraenkel Art Gallery, in downtown San Francisco.
In the summer of 1929, just before the stock market crash, Arbus’s family moved into 1185 Park Avenue.
This is from a radio interview conducted by Studs Terkel in 1968, for his book Hard Times: An Oral History of the Great Depression.
The family fortune always seemed to me humiliating. When I had to go into that store . . . I would come on somebody’s arm or holding somebody’s hand at what must have been a fairly young age and it was like being a princess in some loathsome movie of some kind of Transylvanian obscure middle European country and the kingdom was so humiliating.
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Kanlaon 
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