Child with Toy Hand Grenade in Central Park - Diane Arbus
In a working life less than a decade Diane Arbus effected a profound reconsideration of photography’s intentions. Her work turned away from the central concerns of the preceding generation. She valued psychological above formal precision, private above social realities, the permanent and the prototypical above the ephemeral and the accidental, and courage above subtlety. These intuitions were pursued with acute intelligence and fierce dedication — the latter almost perfectly concealed by humour, and a precisely calculated measure of self-deprecation. Source
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So, too, does Lindsell-Roberts,[20] who gives the same advice of not using them in business correspondence, “or you won’t be LOL”
Uh, where’s the shiftiness and hard-to-pin down communication here?