Diane Arbus's 1960s [electronic resource] : auguries of experience / Frederick Gross.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gross, Frederick, 1968-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Photography--History--20th century.

Photography.

Arbus, Diane, 1923-1971--Criticism and interpretation.

Arbus, Diane.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (280 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis ; London : University of Minnesota Press, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In any decade the work of only a very few artists offers a template for understanding the culture and ideas of their time. Photographer Diane Arbus is one of these rare artists, and in this book Frederick Gross returns Arbus's work to the moment in which it was produced and first viewed to reveal its broader significance for analyzing and mapping the culture of the 1960's. While providing a unique view of the social, literary, and artistic context within which Arbus worked, he also, perhaps for the first time anywhere, measures the true breadth and complexity of her achievement. Gross considers

Contents:

"Sylvia Plath with a camera"

Between intention and effect

Documentary photography and the positivist social gallery

Portraits, pastiche, and magazine work

The body in the 1960s

Madness, disability, and the "untitled" series

The social panorama in context

Revelations : darkness and illumination.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-4529-4646-9

0-8166-8007-8

OCLC:

792688092