Like a person in a fairytale who stops you and demands that you answer a riddle. As she describes in some of her writings included as the introduction to this collection: "There is a quality of legend about freaks. Her accent on these people was in no way mocking rather, these portraits reveal her fascination with life's tragedies as destinies, and how they test both the individual and society itself. The book was edited and designed by Arbus's daughter Doon and Marvin Israel, one of Arbus's former colleagues at Harpers and Queen.Ī private student of Lisette Model, Diane Arbus left behind her career as a top fashion photographer and turned her attention to society's oddities and outsiders - twins, dwarves, giants, transvestites, the elderly and lonely. It includes an introductory text taken from tape recordings of a series of classes Diane Arbus gave in 1971 as well as from some interviews and some of her writings. Published in conjunction with the posthumous 1972 retrospective exhibition of Diane Arbus' dislocating photographic work at New York's Museum of Modern Art, this is the classic Aperture monograph that established her prominence. DIANE ARBUS, An Aperture Monograph, Doon Arbus and Marvin Israel, Designers and Editors.ĩ.5 x 11.25 softcover book, unpaginated, illustrated with full page black and white photographic plates.
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