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Francine Prose, Doon Arbus, and Michael Cunningham host an evening on Diane ...

Capital New York - May 7, 2012
By Molly Fischer The words-to-picture exchange rate is famously unfavorable—so the PEN World Voices Festival set itself a daunting challenge in placing Diane Arbus's photography opposite her “precise use of language” for a slideshow screening and ...

Carli Davidson's Intimate And Bizarre Photographs Of Veterinary Procedures ...

Huffington Post - May 15, 2012
I've also been reading a lot on Diane Arbus, she is one of my big personal influences. HP: Can you share a story behind one of these pictures? What exactly is going on? CD: The first image is Sun Bear 1. I worked with this bear, Vivian, ...

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The Ongoing Moment

by: Geoff Dyer
Great photographs change the way we see the world; The Ongoing Moment changes the way we look at both. Focusing on the ways in which canonical figures like Alfred Stieglitz, Paul Strand, Walker Evans, André Kertész, Edward Weston, Dorothea Lange, Diane Arbus, and William Eggleston have photographed the same things—barber shops, benches, hands, roads, signs–award-winning writer Geoff Dyer seeks to identify their signature styles. In doing so, he constructs a narrative in which these photographers–many of whom never met–constantly encounter one another.
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Diane Arbus: An Aperture Monograph: Fortieth-Anniversary Edition

When Diane Arbus died in 1971 at the age of 48, she was already a significant influence--even something of a legend--for serious photographers, although only a relatively small number of her most important pictures were widely known at the time. The publication of Diane Arbus: An Aperture Monograph in 1972--along with a posthumous retrospective at The Museum of Modern Art--offered the general public its first encounter with the breadth and power of her achievements. The response was unprecedented.
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An Emergency in Slow Motion: The Inner Life of Diane Arbus

by: William Todd Schultz

Diane Arbus was one of the most brilliant and revered photographers in the history of American art. Her portraits, in stark black and white, seemed to reveal the psychological truths of their subjects. But after she committed suicide in 1971, at the age of forty-eight, the presumed chaos and darkness of her own inner life became, for many viewers, inextricable from her work.

In the spirit of Janet Malcolm's classic examination of Sylvia Plath, The Silent Woman, William Todd Schultz's .
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Diane Arbus: A Biography

by: Patricia Bosworth

Diane Arbus—now the subject of a national retrospective and a forthcoming movie—was the archetypal artist living on the edge.

Diane Arbus's unsettling photographs of dwarves and twins, transvestites and giants, both polarized and inspired, and her work had already become legendary when she committed suicide in 1971. This groundbreaking biography examines the private life behind Arbus's controversial art. The book deals with Arbus's pampered Manhattan childhood, her passionate marriage to Allan Arbus, their work together as fashion photographers, the emotional upheaval surrounding the end of their marriage, and the radical, liberating, and ultimately tragic turn Arbus's art took during the 1960s when she was so richly productive.
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ARTIST ROOMS - Diane Arbus - Part 1

Legendary New York photographer Diane Arbus is celebrated for portraits of nudists, circus performers and eccentrics in 1950s and 1960s America. British photographer David Hurn discusses Diane Arbus work, life and legacy. He is in conversation with Martin Barnes, Curator of Photographs at the V&A who curated their 2005 exhibition Diane Arbus Revelations.

ARTIST ROOMS - Diane Arbus - Part 2

Legendary New York photographer Diane Arbus is celebrated for portraits of nudists, circus performers and eccentrics in 1950s and 1960s America. British photographer David Hurn discusses Diane Arbus work, life and legacy. He is in conversation with Martin Barnes, Curator of Photographs at the V&A who curated their 2005 exhibition Diane Arbus Revelations.