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Lubow, Arthur.
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Arbus, Diane, 1923-1971.
Women photographers -- United States -- Biography.
Photographers -- United States -- Biography.
Portrait photographers -- United States -- Biography.
Depressed persons -- Biography.
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Lubow, Arthur.
Arbus, Diane, 1923-1971.
Women photographers -- United States -- Biography.
Photographers -- United States -- Biography.
Portrait photographers -- United States -- Biography.
Depressed persons -- Biography.
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Diane Arbus : portrait of a photographer / Arthur Lubow.
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Lubow, Arthur.
Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins, [2016]
Call #:
770
.92
A667L
Subjects
Arbus, Diane, 1923-1971.
Women photographers -- United States -- Biography.
Photographers -- United States -- Biography.
Portrait photographers -- United States -- Biography.
Depressed persons -- Biography.
ISBN:
9780062234322 (hc.)
Edition:
First edition.
Description:
xviii, 734 p., [16] p. of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 619-714) and index.
Summary:
Linking the extraordinary arc of her life to her iconic photographs, this biography brings into focus with vividness and immediacy one of the great American photographers of the twentieth century. Arbus comes startlingly to life on these pages, a strong-minded child of disconcerting originality who grew into a formidable photographer of unflinching courage. Arbus forged an intimacy with her subjects that has inspired generations of artists. Arresting, unsettling, and poignant, her photographs stick in our minds. Why did these people fascinate her? And what was it about her that captivated them? It is impossible to understand the transfixing power of Arbus's photographs without exploring her life. Lubow draws on exclusive interviews with Arbus's friends, lovers, and colleagues; on previously unknown letters; and on his own profound critical insights into photography to explore Arbus's unique perspective and to reveal important aspects of her life that were previously unknown or unsubstantiated. He deftly traces Arbus's development from a wealthy, sexually precocious free spirit into first, a successful New York fashion photographer and then, a singular artist who coaxed secrets from her subjects. Lubow reveals that Arbus's profound need not only to see her subjects but to be seen by them drove her to forge unusually close bonds with these people, helping her discover the fantasies, pain, and heroism within each of them, and leading her to create a new kind of photographic portraiture charged with an unnerving complicity between the subject and the viewer. American artist Diane Arbus (1923-1971) (born Diane Nemerov) was noted for her photographs of marginalized people - dwarfs, giants, transgender people, nudists, circus performers - and others whose normality was perceived by the general populace as ugly or surreal. She was one of a new generation of documentary photographers, creating photography that emphasized the pathos and conflicts of modern life presented without editorializing or sentimentalizing but with a critical, observant eye. In 2006, the motion picture Fur, starring Nicole Kidman as Arbus, presented a fictional version of her life story.
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