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In what year did Diane Arbus become the first photographer to be included in the Venice Biennale?

  • 1970

  • 1972

  • 1974

  • 1976

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Diane Arbus became the first photographer to be included in the Venice Biennale in 1972. She was selected by the curator Harald Szeemann, who was interested in exploring the intersection of art and popular culture. Arbus' work was controversial at the time, and her photographs of people on the margins of society were seen as shocking and disturbing.
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