Diane Arbus : family albums / Anthony W. Lee and John Pultz.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lee, Anthony W., 1960-

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Pultz, John.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Arbus, Diane, 1923-1971--Exhibitions.

Arbus, Diane.

Arbus, Diane, 1923-1971.

Photography of families--Exhibitions.

Photography of families.

Genre:

Exhibition catalogs.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1 & 2)

Physical Description:

xvi, 62 pages, 42, 26 pages of plates : illustrations ; 29 cm

Place of Publication:

New Haven [Conn.] : Yale University Press ; [South Hadley, Mass.] : Mount Holyoke College Museum of Art ; [Lawrence] Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas, [2003]

Summary:

Diane Arbus (1923-1971) is renowned for her provocative and unsettling portraits of modern Americans. This book presents a significant body of previously unpublished pictures by Arbus and proposes a radically new way to understand her goals, strategies, and over-all work. Diane Arbus: Family Albums examines unknown contact sheets from several of Arbus's portrait sessions, including more than three hundred photographs she took of a New York family one weekend in 1969. Anthony W. Lee and John Pultz put to the test Arbus's claim that she was developing a "family album." They present other images Arbus shot for Esquire magazine (including pictures of the families of Ricky Nelson, Jayne Mansfield, and Ogden Reid) and discuss her interest in photographic groupings of both traditional and alternative families. Challenging common interpretations of Arbus, the authors reveal a photographer far more savvy with the camera, more aware of photography as an artistic and commercial practice, and more sensitive to the social and cultural tensions of the 1960s than has been acknowledged before.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

0300101465

OCLC:

52055635