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Diane Arbus: portrait of a photographer

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Diane Arbus was one of the greatest photographers of the last century.

Her portraiture of freaks, circus performers, twins, nudists and others on the social margins connected with a wide public at a deep psychological level.

Her suicide in New York in 1971 overshadowed the reception to her work.

Her posthumous exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art a year later drew lines around the block.

She was born into a Russian-Jewish family, the Nemerovs, who owned a department store on Fifth Avenue.

Arbus died in a rent-protected apartment scrambling to earn her keep with odd teaching assignments.

Lubow's biography begins at the moment Arbus quit the world of commercial photography to be an artist.

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Jonathan Cape Ltd.
1448156610 / 9781448156610
eBook (EPUB)
770.92
06/10/2016
England
English
752 pages
Copy: 10%; print: 10%
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