这本书复制了黛安•阿勃丝 (Diane Arbus) 整个职业生涯的 200 张整页双色调照片。它还包括 Aperture 执行董事 Sarah Meister 的新贡献,以及旧金山现代艺术博物馆的退休摄影高级策展人 Sandra S. Phillips 的文章,以及 Neil Selkirk 对 Arbus 印刷技术的讨论,自她去世以来唯一有权打印她的照片的人。旧金山现代艺术博物馆的客座策展人 Elisabeth Sussman 和艺术家的大女儿 Doon Arbus 创作了一份详尽的年表,其中包含 300 多张额外的图片,主要由艺术家的信件、笔记本和其他著作,相当于一种自传。 Doon Arbus 的后记在摄影师朋友和同事的传记条目之前,由纽约大都会艺术博物馆摄影部的策展人 Jeff L. Rosenheim 编写。这些文字有助于阐明黛安•阿勃丝充满争议和惊人愿景的意义。
Aperture is proud to bring this best-selling and indispensable title back into print, coinciding with the fiftieth anniversary of Diane Arbus’s groundbreaking solo exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, New York.
Diane Arbus: Revelations explores the origins, scope, and aspirations of this wholly original force in photography. Arbus’s frank treatment of her subjects and her faith in the intrinsic power of the medium have produced a body of work that is often shocking in its purity, in its steadfast celebration of things as they are. Presenting many of her lesser-known or previously unpublished photographs in the context of the iconic images reveals a subtle yet persistent view of the world.
The book reproduces two hundred full-page duotones of Diane Arbus photographs spanning her entire career. It also includes a new contribution by Sarah Meister, executive director of Aperture, alongside essays by Sandra S. Phillips, senior curator of photography, emeritus, at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and a discussion of Arbus’s printing techniques by Neil Selkirk, the only person authorized to print her photographs since her death. An extensive chronology by Elisabeth Sussman, guest curator of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art show, and Doon Arbus, the artist’s eldest daughter, is illustrated by more than three hundred additional images and composed primarily of excerpts from the artist’s letters, notebooks, and other writings, amounting to a kind of autobiography. An afterword by Doon Arbus precedes biographical entries on the photographer’s friends and colleagues, compiled by Jeff L. Rosenheim, curator in charge of the Department of Photographs at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. These texts help illuminate the meaning of Diane Arbus’s controversial and astonishing vision.
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