BOOK FORMAT Paperback, 9.25 x 11 in. / 182 pgs / 82 duotone.
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"Giving a camera to Diane Arbus is like putting a live grenade in the hands of a child..." Norman Mailer
APERTURE
Diane Arbus: An Aperture Monograph
Fortieth-Anniversary Edition
Published by Aperture Edited by Marvin Israel, Doon Arbus.
When Diane Arbus died in 1971 at the age of 48, she was already a significant influence--even something of a legend--for serious photographers, although only a relatively small number of her most important pictures were widely known at the time. The publication of Diane Arbus: An Aperture Monograph in 1972--along with the posthumous retrospective at The Museum of Modern Art--offered the general public its first encounter with the breadth and power of her achievements. The response was unprecedented. The monograph, composed of 80 photographs, was edited and designed by the painter Marvin Israel, Diane Arbus’ friend and colleague, and by her daughter Doon Arbus. Their goal in producing the book was to remain as faithful as possible to the standards by which Arbus judged her own work and to the ways in which she hoped it would be seen. Universally acknowledged as a photobook classic, Diane Arbus: An Aperture Monograph is a timeless masterpiece with editions in five languages, and remains the foundation of her international reputation. A quarter of a century has done nothing to diminish the riveting impact of these pictures or the controversy they inspire. Arbus’ photographs penetrate the psyche with all the force of a personal encounter and, in doing so, transform the way we see the world and the people in it.
Featured image is reproduced from Diane Arbus: An Aperture Monograph.
PRAISE AND REVIEWS
The Photobook Review
Laurel Nakadate
Everything that needs to be said has already been said about this book, this record, this heartache, this brave account, this body of evidence. I didn't choose to write about this book because I feel that I can say anything more eloquent than what has already been said... Arbus is able to tell us how much we want and how much we will have and will not have, she manage it in the pages of one monograph.
STAFF REVIEW
Arbus' work is challenging. "Giving a camera to Diane Arbus is like putting a live grenade in the hands of a child," Norman Mailer once wrote; Peter Schjeldahl praised her as "a revolutionary" whose "greatness" continues to be misunderstood. Monograph was first published by Aperture in 1972, a year after Arbus' death, to accompany a show at MOMA. In 2011, Aperture published a fortieth-anniversary edition with new separations, as a $65 jacketed hardcover. That new edition is now available as a paperback. This is the Arbus book: it contains 80 of her best known photographs, as well as short texts from classes she taught, excerpts from her writings and interviews. Diane Arbus: Monograph ranks up there with Robert Frank's The Americans and Walker Evans' American Photographs--it is a cornerstone of the photobook canon. -- Avery Lozada Artbook | D.A.P. Staff
"Girl in her circus costume, Md." (1970) is reproduced from Aperture's classic Diane Arbus monograph, a featured title in the National Gallery of Art's current exhibition of seminal photography books following Robert Frank'sThe Americans. In the introductory text, Arbus is quoted, "I do feel I have some slight corner on something about the quality of things. I mean it's very subtle and a little embarrassing to me, but I really believe there are things which nobody would see unless I photographed them." continue to blog
FROM THE BOOK
"…Freaks was a thing I photographed a lot. It was one of the first things I photographed and it had a terrific kind of excitement for me. I just used to adore them. I still do adore some of them. I don't quite mean they're my best friends but they made me feel a mixture of shame and awe. There's a quality of legend about freaks. Like a person in a fairy tale who stops you and demands that you answer a riddle. Most people go through life dreading they'll have a traumatic experience. Freaks were born with their trauma. They've already passed their test in life. They're aristocrats.
I'm very little drawn to photographing people that are known or even subjects that are known. They fascinate me when I've barely heard of them and the minute they get public, I become terribly blank about them."
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FORMAT: Pbk, 9.25 x 11 in. / 182 pgs / 82 duotone. LIST PRICE: U.S. $39.95 LIST PRICE: CANADA $50 ISBN: 9781597111751 PUBLISHER: Aperture AVAILABLE: 9/30/2012 DISTRIBUTION: D.A.P. RETAILER DISC: TRADE PUBLISHING STATUS: No longer our product AVAILABILITY: Not Available
Diane Arbus: An Aperture Monograph Fortieth-Anniversary Edition
Published by Aperture. Edited by Marvin Israel, Doon Arbus.
When Diane Arbus died in 1971 at the age of 48, she was already a significant influence--even something of a legend--for serious photographers, although only a relatively small number of her most important pictures were widely known at the time. The publication of Diane Arbus: An Aperture Monograph in 1972--along with the posthumous retrospective at The Museum of Modern Art--offered the general public its first encounter with the breadth and power of her achievements. The response was unprecedented. The monograph, composed of 80 photographs, was edited and designed by the painter Marvin Israel, Diane Arbus’ friend and colleague, and by her daughter Doon Arbus. Their goal in producing the book was to remain as faithful as possible to the standards by which Arbus judged her own work and to the ways in which she hoped it would be seen. Universally acknowledged as a photobook classic, Diane Arbus: An Aperture Monograph is a timeless masterpiece with editions in five languages, and remains the foundation of her international reputation. A quarter of a century has done nothing to diminish the riveting impact of these pictures or the controversy they inspire. Arbus’ photographs penetrate the psyche with all the force of a personal encounter and, in doing so, transform the way we see the world and the people in it.
