Diane Arbus

Arthur Lubow

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JONATHAN CAPE
01 August 2016

Art & design styles: c 1900 to c 1960; Individual photographers; Biography; Biography: arts & entertainment

A revelatory biography of the uncompromising photographer, Diane Arbus

Diane Arbus was one of the greatest photographers of the last century. Her portraiture of freaks, circus performers, twins, nudists and others on the social margins connected with a wide public at a deep psychological level. Her suicide in New York in 1971 overshadowed the reception to her work. Her posthumous exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art a year later drew lines around the block.

She was born into a Russian-Jewish family, the Nemerovs, who owned a department store on Fifth Avenue. They were family friends with the Avedons. Richard Avedon later championed Arbus's work. Avedon rose to greater and greater commercial success through the magazine world.

Arbus died in a rent-protected apartment scrambling to earn her keep with odd teaching assignments. Lubow's biography begins at the moment Arbus quit the world of commercial photography to be an artist. She was uncompromising in that ambition. The book ends with her death. The entire narrative is a slow march towards that event.

By: Arthur Lubow
Imprint: JONATHAN CAPE
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 240mm, Width: 162mm, Spine: 48mm
Weight: 1.324kg
ISBN: 9780224097703
ISBN 10: 0224097709
Pages: 784
Publication Date: 01 August 2016
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Arthur Lubow is a journalist in New York who has been a staff writer for Newsweek, Vanity Fair and New Yorker.

Reviews for Diane Arbus

[A] fascinating biography... Lubow has performed miracles in gleaning so much fascinating material from Arbus's friends, colleagues and assistants -- Lynn Barber Sunday Times [A] Deeply researched, sometimes prurient, new biography. -- Sean O'Hagan Observer Lubow's excavation of the private life of a great artist is...welcome. -- Olivia Cole New Statesman It paints a convincing picture of a lost soul. -- Bryan Appleyard Spectator

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Diane Arbus

Arthur Lubow

$80

Hardback

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