Diane Arbus

Diane Arbus was born, to a wealthy Jewish family, in 1923. At the age of 13, she met Allan Arbus, an employee in the advertising department of her parents' store, and they married, with her parents' grudging assent, after she turned 18. After the war, during which Allan studied photography in the New Jersey Signal Corps, the couple supported themselves, and daughters Doon and Yolanda, as fashion photographers (the family money, somehow, never materialized for Arbus as an adult).  Allan gave Diane her first camera, and they took equal credit on their published photos.