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The Amazon Store at MillionDollarPetPix.com ( In association with Amazon.com )Diane Arbus: Revelationsby: Diane Arbus List Price: $123.95 Price: $109.46 You Save: $14.49 (12%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Dewey Decimal Number: 770 EAN: 9780224071833 ISBN: 0224071831 Label: Jonathan Cape Manufacturer: Jonathan Cape Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 351 Publication Date: 2003-01 Publisher: Jonathan Cape Studio: Jonathan Cape Related Items:
Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Editorial Review: Amazon.com Review: Muscle men, midgets, socialites, circus performers and asylum inmates: in the 1950s and '60s, photographer Diane Arbus (1923-1971) cast her strong eye on them all, capturing them as no one else could. Her documentary-style photos of society's margin-walkers were objective and reverential, while she often portrayed so-called normal people looking far more freakish than the freaks. Her powerful work was well-received in its day. Arbus received Guggenheim Fellowships in 1963 and 1966 and was included in a major show at MOMA in 1967. But her work entered the realm of near-myth after her 1971 suicide. Posthumously cast as everything from patron saint of the underdog to a crass exploiter of the mentally challenged, Arbus has curiously never had a large retrospective until the show Revelations was organized by Arbus' family and SF MOMA. The accompanying catalogue is an oversized, sumptuous, beautifully printed tome. It includes all of the artist's iconic photographs as well as many that have never been publicly exhibited, including many pages of contact sheets, journal entries, and family snapshots. This work is so strong, it's mind-blowing. The giant in his apartment with his parents looks absolutely regal, his parents sad and confused. Are those crazy people always so happy? And what to make of this moment of extreme tenderness between a dominatrix and her client? This is a book worth hours of your time. --Mike McGonigal Product Description: Photographs by Diane Arbus Afterword by Doon Arbus In these photographs Arbus achieves a lyricism, an emotional purity, that sets them apart from all her other accomplishments. Untitled may well be Arbus's most transcendent, most romantic vision. It is a celebration of the singularity and connectedness of each and every one of us. It demands of us what it demanded of her: the courage to see things as they are and the grace to permit them simply to be. Average Rating:
![]() Rating: - Perfect Introduction to Diane Arbus' WorkPerfect introduction to Diane Arbus' work, fairly large format, good quality prints, and including an unusual approach to her biography. Rating: - great bookthis book as good, as good is phptographer Diane Arbus, good hard cover, good printed, and its not just an album, it contains lot of interesting information worth to discovery, I truely recomend this book for everyone who likes "real" things Rating: - a haunted soulDiane Arbus' works reflect for me, the tragic echoes of an artist's disconnected soul in search of kinship. I believe her subjects reflected this inner state in its polarity - from the curiously delightful to the stark nakedness of oddity. "What do i see when i look in the mirror? I search for you, to document your being, your existence, your very breath because you rebel for me, against all that they say is conventional, permissable and normal. i record your pneuma and the beauty of your unorthodoxy." ... Read More Rating: - A glorious exhibition of Diane ArbusThe legacy of dead artists is always in the hands of others. As Doon Arbus, Diane's daughter, laments, some go way to far in "analyzing" the work of her mother. (For a particularly abominable and repulsive example of this, see Anthony Lee and John Stultz's "Diane Arbus: Family Albums".) This gigantic Arbus exhibition was mounted by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. It features 200 Arbus photos, spanning her entire work and more than 300 auxillary images of her notebooks, darkroom ... Read More Rating: - Beautiful bookI had the great fortune to see Revelations in person when the show was at the MET in NYC in 2004. There is nothing like seeing actual prints in person but this gorgous book is the next best thing. The paper stock is top notch as is the binding. I proudly display this book on my coffee table for family and friends to enjoy.
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