When Diane Arbus died in 1971 at the age of forty-eight, shewas already a significant influence—even something of alegend—among serious photographers, although only a relativelysmall number of her most important pictures were widely known atthe time. The publication of Diane Arbus: An Aperture Monograph in1972—along with the posthumous retrospective at The Museum ofModern Art—offered the general public its first encounter with thebreadth and power of her achievements. The response wasunprecedented. The monograph of eighty photographs was edited anddesigned by the painter Marvin Israel, Diane Arbus’s friend andcolleague, and by her daughter Doon Arbus. Their goal in making thebook was to remain as faithful as possible to the standards bywhich Diane Arbus judged her own work and to the ways in which shehoped it would be seen. Universally acknowledged as a classic,Diane Arbus: An Aperture Monograph is a timeless masterpiece witheditions in five languages and remains the foundation of herinternational reputation. Nearly half of a century has done nothingto diminish the riveting impact of these pictures or thecontroversy they inspire. Arbus’s photographs penetrate the psychewith all the force of a personal encounter and, in doing so,transform the way we see the world and the people in it. This isthe first edition in which the image separations were createddigitally; the files have been specially prepared by Robert J.Hennessey using prints by Neil Selkirk.
【作者简介】
Diane Arbus--born Diane Nemerov in New York City in1923--married Allan Arbus at the age of eighteen. She startedtaking pictures in the early 1940's and studied photography withBerenice Abbott in the late 1940's and with Alexey Brodovitch inthe mid 1950's. It was Lisette Model's photographic workshops,however, that inspired her, around 1957, to begin seriouslypursuing the work for which she has come to be known.
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