"These photographs, most of which have never been seen before, belong to what has come to be known as Diane Arbus' UNTITLED series – by default, in a sense, since the individual titles she might have given them were never done. The photographs were taken at residences for the mentally retarded between 1969 and 1971, places she kept going back to every few months or so, to picnics, dances, on Halloween, in the last years of her life. This is simply information. What's in the pictures lies much closer to home.
When she made them, she had already staked out her territory as a photographer and there was no retreat. But, almost from the beginning, she recognized in these pictures something new, something she'd been searching for for a long time, uncertain what shape it might take. The discovering set her free. Although, as an artist, she was still on familiar ground, it must have felt for a while like a foreign country."
(Do posfácio de Untitled, livro de fotos de Diane Arbus, Ed. Thames and Hudson, 1995. Escrito por Doon Arbus, sua filha.)
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