Outsiders

Jim Shedden

ISBN 10: 0847849554 / ISBN 13: 9780847849550

Published by Rizzoli International Publications, US, 2016

About this Item

Like Invisibles and Snapshots of Dangerous Women, Outsiders is an accessible visual tour through life experienced on the margins of mainstream society. Squired through the social turmoil of the 1950s, 60s, and 70s by artists like Diane Arbus and Nan Goldin, Outsiders is an unforgettable look at people whose identity is in flux. Idealists, outsiders, and those brave enough to be themselves shot by visionary photographers including Diane Arbus, Garry Winogrand, and Nan Goldin reveal the roots of America's influential counterculture.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Outsiders
• Publisher: Rizzoli International Publications, US
• Publication Date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0847849554
• ISBN 13: 9780847849550
• Binding: Hardback
• Condition: New
• Weight: 712 grams

About this title

Synopsis

Idealists, outsiders, and those brave enough to be themselves, as depicted by visionary photographers and filmmakers including Diane Arbus and Nan Goldin, reveal another America. A visual tour through life at the margins in the United States from the late 1950s to the early 1980s, Outsiders highlights the work of iconic photographers and filmmakers who profoundly changed the image of American culture. Kenneth Anger, Diane Arbus, Shirley Clarke, Nan Goldin, Danny Lyon, Garry Winogrand, and their contemporaries challenged rigid postwar society with their powerful films and photographs. Lyon’s travels with Chicago biker gangs and Arbus’s swordswallowers form a dramatic counterpoint to a trove of midcentury images from Casa Susanna, a community of cross-dressers enjoying country life en femme. Outsiders captures diverse and significant subcultures and interests, united by each subject’s will to determine his or her own identity. Accompanying the images, essays by curators and critics explore American underground cinema, street photography, the distinct countercultures of New York and Los Angeles, and the spectacle of everyday living in a time of political and cultural turmoil.

About the Author

Sophie Hackett is the associate curator, photography; Jim Shedden is the manager of publishing; and Stephanie Smith is chief curator at the Art Gallery of Ontario. Katherine A. Bussard is the Peter C. Bunnell Curator of Photography at Princeton University Art Museum. Martha Kirszenbaum is the director and curator of Fahrenheit, Los Angeles. Tess Takahashi is an independent writer specializing in media arts.