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Details the ups and downs, vision, and work of the influential and controversial photographer, drawing precise correspondences between the life and the work
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Opportunities for sensationalism abound in a book about Arbus, who already had a history of severe depressions and a crumbling marriage by the time she began to take the controversial, technically innovative pictures of dwarfs, nudists and drag queens that won her a reputation as "a photographer of freaks." Bosworth balances the lurid details -- rumors that Arbus had sex with her subjects, that she photographed her own suicide in 1971 -- with a nuanced appraisal of an artist whose images captured the uneasy mood of the 1960s by expressing her personal obsessions.
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Patricia Bosworth is the author of biographies of Montgomery Clift and Marlon Brando. She is a contributing editor of Vanity Fair and has taught writing at Columbia University. She lives in New York.
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- PublisherAvon Books
- Publication date1989
- ISBN 10 0380699273
- ISBN 13 9780380699278
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages433
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Book Description Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 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. Trade edition; first printing as indicated by the complete number string 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 on the publication history page. This is a used book. Pages are clean and bright with no markings, notes, or highlighting. Covers show only minor shelf wear and are not creased. Price tag on rear cover. No owner's marks or bookplates, not ex-library. Binding is tight and square, however two of the pages of photographs are loose. All 16 pages of photographs are present. Corners lightly bumped. A good reading copy. Seller Inventory # M0532
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Book Description paperback. Condition: Very Good. Softcover, 1985, Stated First Avon Printing, 433 pages. Very Good, No Dust Jacket-as issued. Moderate soiling and shelf/edge wear.- binding tight. No prior owner marks ? all pages are crisp and clean with no highlighting, underlining or other marking. Contains 16 pages of photographs of Diane and the people in her life at various times. A fascinating full-scale account of Diane?s life from childhood through the evolution of her work and her terrifying slide into self-destruction. The New York City creative scene during the 1950's and 1960's is vividly portrayed. ISBN-0380699273 LOC. Seller Inventory # 240323002
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