Museum Exhibition Catalogues, Monographs, Artist's Projects, Curatorial Writings and Essays
"She wasn't interested in making pictures that looked like art, or illustrated an opinion, or showed us things the way we wished they were. She wasn't interested in self-expression. There are beautiful photographs here and making beautiful photographs was important to her. But, for her, the beauty of the photograph originated in the thing itself." Doon Arbus, excerpted from the afterword to Untitled.
During a relatively brief career, Diane Arbus created a distinctly personal style of portraiture that made her one of the great 20th-century photographers. Born in New York in 1923, by the 1950s she was supporting herself by working for magazines such as Vogue and Glamour. Two Guggenheim awards (1963 and 1966) allowed her to travel and undertake her own projects. The artist died in 1971. Retrospectives of her work have been shown at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, and The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
Edited with text by Sarah Hermanson Meister. Text by Max Kozloff.
In the past decade a new generation of photographers has directed the documentary approach toward more personal ends. Their aim has been not to reform life, but to know it. —John Szarkowski
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Published by The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Edited with text by Sarah Hermanson Meister. Text by Max Kozloff.
In 1967, The Museum of Modern Art presented New Documents, a landmark exhibition organized by John Szarkowski that brought together a selection of works by three photographers whose individual achievements signaled the artistic potential for the medium in the 1960s and beyond: Diane Arbus, Lee Friedlander and Garry Winogrand.
Though largely unknown at the time, these three photographers are now universally acknowledged as artists of singular talent within the history of photography. The exhibition articulated a profound shift in the landscape of 20th-century photography, and interest in the exhibition has only continued to expand. Yet, until now, there has been no publication that captures its content.
Published in celebration of the 50th anniversary of the exhibition, Arbus Friedlander Winogrand features full-page reproductions of the 94 photographs included in the exhibition, along with Szarkowski’s original wall text, press release, installation views and an abundance of archival material. Essays by curator Sarah Hermanson Meister and critic Max Kozloff, who originally reviewed the exhibition for The Nation in 1967, critically situate the exhibition and its reception, and examine its lasting influence on the field of photography.
Sarah Hermanson Meister is Curator of the Department of Photography at The Museum of Modern Art, New York.
Max Kozloff is a New York-based writer and photographer.
Kristen Gaylord is Beaumont and Nancy Newhall Curatorial Fellow of the Department of Photography at The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Untitled may well be Arbus's most transcendent, most romantic vision. It is a celebration of the singularity and connectedness of people and it demonstrates Arbus' remarkable visual lyricism.
PUBLISHER Aperture
BOOK FORMAT Hardcover, 11 x 14 in. / 112 pgs / 52 reproductions throughout.
PUBLISHING STATUS Pub Date 6/15/2005 No longer our product
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Published by Aperture. Essay by Thomas W. Southall, text by Diane Arbus.
Photography's most original artist presents the celebrities of her time in a remarkable collection of portraits. This work reveals the growth of an artist who saw no artificial boundary between art and the paying job and who succeeded in putting her indelible stamp on the visual imagination.
PUBLISHER Aperture
BOOK FORMAT Paperback, 9.25 x 11 in. / 176 pgs / 146 reproductions throughout.
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Published by Aperture. Text by Diane Arbus. Edited by Marvin Israel and Doon Arbus.
New technology has made possible this lustrous new printing from all new film. These landmark images now have a clarity and depth not achievable in earlier editions.
PUBLISHER Aperture
BOOK FORMAT Hardcover, 9.25 x 11 in. / 182 pgs / 82 reproductions throughout.
PUBLISHING STATUS Pub Date 6/15/2005 No longer our product
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Published by Aperture. Text by Diane Arbus. Edited by Marvin Israel and Doon Arbus.
New technology has made possible this lustrous new printing from all new film. These landmark images now have a clarity and depth not achievable in earlier editions.
PUBLISHER Aperture
BOOK FORMAT Paperback, 9.25 x 11 in. / 182 pgs / 82 reproductions throughout.
PUBLISHING STATUS Pub Date 6/15/2005 No longer our product
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PRODUCT DETAILS ISBN 9780893816940TRADE List Price: $39.95 CAD $50.00
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