Arbus's photographs are mostly taken straight on, in a way to make the person look more deranged. I think the point of the photos looking this way is for them to look sort of odd, but also too look sincere in a way that we feel badly for them. Arbus's photographs are of images that appear "grotesque" to the social norm of what many consider beautiful. I think the purpose of the people in these photographs looking straight forward is so the viewer is forced to look into their eyes and see straight into their soul like Arbus did with these people. Their eyes are probably meant to be expressive so that the viewer gets a sense of who they are and like the pictures of LUNPFM, we feel sorry for these people. Because the people in the photograph are real people when we look into their eyes and they look sad and ugly it makes us feel sorry for them and connect to them in that way, because there have been times when we've all felt sad and ugly. I think Arbus wants you to relate to these people in that they may be ugly at first glance but looking into their stares we find value in that persons life and in turn beauty.
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