Poor Photographers
An alarmingly high proportion of photographers whose work I admire very much were very very poor: W. Eugene Smith died at 59 with $18 in the bank, Diane Arbus taught a master class (students included Bruce Weber, who is not poor incidentally) to make money so she could buy a Pentax, Garry Winogrand was “perpetually poor… one year, his total income was $60,” as reported here on the occasion of the current exhibition of his work at the Phoenix Art Museum.