Diane Arbus (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Patricia Bosworth
- First Published: 1984
- Type of Work: Biography
- Time of Work: 1923-1971
- Setting: New York
- Principal Characters: Diane Nemerov Arbus, David Nemerov, Gertrude Russek Nemerov, Howard Nemerov, Allan Arbus, Doon Arbus, Amy Arbus, Lisette Model, Robert Frank, Marvin Israel
- Genres: Nonfiction, Biography
- Subjects: 1950’s, 1960’s, Suicide, Art or artists, Creative process, Photography or photographers, Popular culture, Eccentrics or eccentricities
- Locales: New York
Diane Arbus’ haunting photographs have fascinated the public since the 1950’s, when this elusive and intense young photographer was making her name in the world of fashion. By the time of her suicide in 1971, Arbus was best known for her compassionate yet uncompromising images of freaks and misfits, pictures that alarmed and entranced the viewer by the way they dissolved the difference between “normal” and “abnormal.” Arbus’ suicide helped to make a cult figure of her. Until Patricia Bosworth’s biography (which was published in hardcover by Alfred A. Knopf in 1984)...
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