Diane Arbus: Portrait of a Photographer
by Lubow, Arthur
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- Hardcover
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- ISBN 10
- 0062234323
- ISBN 13
- 9780062234322
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New York: Ecco, 2016. 2nd pr.. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover, 734 pages, b&w illustrations. The definitive biography of the beguiling Diane Arbus, one of the most influential and important photographers of the twentieth century, a brilliant and absorbing exposition that links the extraordinary arc of her life to her iconic photographs. 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. Record # 353250
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
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- Title
- Diane Arbus: Portrait of a Photographer
- Author
- Lubow, Arthur
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- 2nd pr.
- ISBN 10
- 0062234323
- ISBN 13
- 9780062234322
- Publisher
- Ecco
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2016
- Keywords
- Photography, Biography, , .
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- Photography;
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