Diane Arbus: A Biography - Hardcover

Bosworth, Patricia

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0394504046 ISBN 13: 9780394504049

Publisher: Alfred a Knopf Inc, 1984

Synopsis

Diane Arbus's startling photographic images of dwarfs, twins, transvestites, and freaks seemed from the first to redefine both the normal and the abnormal in our lives; they were already becoming part of the iconography of the age when Arbus committed suicide in 1971. Arbus herself remained an enigma until the publication of this first full biography. Patricia Bosworth examines the life behind the eerie, mesmerizing photographs: Diane's pampered childhood; her passionate marriage to Allan Arbus and their work together as fashion photographers during the fifties; the emotional upheaval surrounding the end of that marriage; and the radically dark, liberating, and ultimately tragic turn Diane's art took during the sixties. Bosworth's engrossing book is a compassionate portrait of the woman behind some of the most powerful photographs of our time.

About this title

Product Description:

Superb, revealing biography of one of the most influential photographic masters of our time; b&w photos; extensive notes and index

Review:

"A biography that seems to have more than enough material for several art legends. Patricia Bosworth has created a spellbinding portrait" (New York Magazine)

"Sensitive...detailed...balanced" (New York Times)

"An excellent biography" (Times Literary Supplement)

"A spirited biography " (Time)

About this edition

• Publisher: Alfred a Knopf Inc
• Publication date: 1984
• ISBN 10: 0394504046
• ISBN 13: 9780394504049
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1