Diane Arbus: Magazine Work

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.

Author: Diane Arbus
Publisher: Aperture
Published: 06/15/2005
Pages: 175
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.99lbs
Size: 11.03h x 9.16w x 0.54d
ISBN: 9780893812331

About the Author
Arbus, Diane: - 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.Israel, Marvin: - Israel was a designer & artist, mentor to other photographers, now deceased.Arbus, Doon: - RICHARD AVEDON (b. 1923) was the editor, with his classmate James Baldwin, of "The Magpie, the literary magazine at De Witt Clinton High School in the Bronx. In 1942 he joined the photography department of the U.S. merchant marine. He was a staff photographer at I>Harper's Bazaar (1951-1965) and "Vogue (1966-1988), and he collaborated with James Baldwin on "Nothing Personal (1964), a book about the civil rights movement. In 1992 he became the first staff photographer at "The New Yorker.
DOON ARBUS (b. 1945) is the author of "Alice in Wonderland: The Forming of a Company, the Making of a Play, and has written for a number of magazines, including "Rolling Stone and "The Nation. Her thirty-year collaboration with Richard Avedon began with the project that has become this book. She is completing her "Unfinished Novel.
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