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In the early 1960s, as art editor of a prestigious US magazine, I commissioned Diane Arbus to fly to Hollywood and photograph that long-ago number-one box-office movie sex symbol Mae West.
The resulting portraits - in one, Miss West is in bed with two chimpanzees - were jaw-dropping when published. They eventually became the cover of Arbus’s book Magazine Work.
With her eye for freaks, Arbus also ferreted out leaders of the many bizarre religious cults, then - as now - rife on that fetid Californian coast.
These subjects were a shade too weird to print at the time. Among
