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Diane Arbus
Patricia Bosworth
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Description for Diane Arbus
Paperback. Diane Arbus's photographic images of dwarfs, twins, transvestites, and freaks were becoming part of the iconography of the age when Arbus committed suicide in 1971. This book examines Diane's life through: her childhood; her marriage to Allan Arbus; the emotional upheaval surrounding the end of that marriage; and more. Num Pages: 400 pages, 2. BIC Classification: AJB; BG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 131 x 25. Weight in Grams: 288.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Vintage Publishing United Kingdom
Number of pages
400
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Condition
New
Number of Pages
400
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099470366
SKU
V9780099470366
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Ref
99-23
About Patricia Bosworth
Patricia Bosworth is an American journalist and biographer. She has written frequently for the New York Times and Vanity Fair and is the author of Montgomery Clift: A Biography (1978), Anything Your Little Heart Desires: An American Family Story (1997) and Marlon Brando: A Biography (2000).
Reviews for Diane Arbus
A biography that seems to have more than enough material for several art legends. Patricia Bosworth has created a spellbinding portrait
New York Magazine
Sensitive...detailed...balanced
New York Times
An excellent biography
Times Literary Supplement
A biography that seems to have more than enough material for several art legends. Patricia Bosworth has created a spellbinding ... Read more
New York Magazine
Sensitive...detailed...balanced
New York Times
An excellent biography
Times Literary Supplement
A biography that seems to have more than enough material for several art legends. Patricia Bosworth has created a spellbinding ... Read more