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A groundbreaking publication offering insight into the critical conversations and misconceptions around this unrivaled artist’s works.
Background information
"Best known for her penetrating images exploring what it means to be human, Diane ARBUS is a pivotal and singular figure in American postwar photography. Her black-and-white photographs demolish aesthetic conventions and upend all certainties. Both lauded and criticized for her photographs of people deemed 'outsiders,' she continues to be a lightning rod for a wide range of opinions surrounding her subject matter and approach. Critics and writers have described her work as 'sinister' and 'appalling' as well as 'revelatory,' 'sincere,' and 'compassionate.' Through an assemblage of articles, criticism, and essays from 1967 to the present, the volume 'Diane Arbus Documents' charts the reception of the revolutionary photographer's work.
Content
Illuminating fifty years of evolution in the field of art criticism, the photo volume 'Diane Arbus Documents' provides a new template for understanding the work of any formidable artist. Organized in eleven sections that focus on major exhibitions and significant events emerging from her work, as well as on her methods and intentions, the sixty-nine facsimiles of previously published articles and essays––an archive by all accounts––trace the discourse on Diane ARBUS, contextualizing her inimitable oeuvre. Supplemented by an annotated bibliography of more than six hundred entries and a comprehensive exhibition history, 'Diane Arbus Documents' serves as an important resource for photographers, researchers, art historians, and art critics, in addition to students of art criticism and the interested reader alike." (© Thames & Hudson, 2022)