Diane Arbus changed twentieth-century photography. Her art has divided critics environment. Aroused aroused admiration and disgust. The artist has blurred the boundary between what is normal and abnormal, decent and indecent, she learned to notice what is marginal. Patricia Bosworth in his book paints a moving portrait of a remarkable woman and a great artist whose name is mentioned alongside such figures as Richard Avedon, Andy Warhol and Annie Leibowitz.
premature, suicide Diane Arbus, belonging to the greatest American photographers of the twentieth century, who died in 1971 year, has made her character and work became one of the myths of contemporary culture. Controversial, provocative ugliness and apparent severity of the pictures of dwarfs and giants, twins, transvestites, and forever changed the way of understanding the limits of normality and what is acceptable in a photograph. Although the artistic achievements of Diane Arbus was fascinated and inspired many years after her death, she remained in the shadow of mystery.
In his penetrating biography of Patricia Bosworth draws not only a portrait of the artist, but primarily women. Shows details of privacy and artistic development Arbus, following from a happy childhood in a Jewish merchant family from New York, through marriage to Allan Arbus, a partner in the artistic work, to divorce, depression and suicide.
The book also contains members devoted to how the work of Arbus is perceived today, and a review of recent publications on it.
Several photographs by Diane Arbus:
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