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Diane Arbus''s startling photographic images of dwarfs, twins, transvestites, and freaks seemed from the first to redefine both the normal and the abnormal in our lives; they were already becoming part of the iconography of the age when Arbus committed suicide in 1971. Arbus herself remained an enigma until the publication of this first full biography. Patricia Bosworth examines the life behind the eerie, mesmerizing photographs: Diane''s pampered childhood; her passionate marriage to Allan Arbus and their work together as fashion photographers during the fifties; the emotional upheaval surrounding the end of that marriage; and the radically dark, liberating, and ultimately tragic turn Diane''s art took during the sixties. Bosworth''s engrossing book is a compassionate portrait of the woman behind some of the most powerful photographs of our time.

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A biography that seems to have more than enough material for several art legends. Patricia Bosworth has created a spellbinding portrait * New York Magazine *
Sensitive...detailed...balanced * New York Times *
An excellent biography * Times Literary Supplement *
A biography that seems to have more than enough material for several art legends. Patricia Bosworth has created a spellbinding portrait * New York Magazine *
A spirited biography * Time *

Diane Arbus

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      Publisher Penguin Random House Group
      Imprint Vintage
      Published 6 October 2005
      ISBN-13 9780099470366
      978-0099470366
      ISBN-10 0099470365
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      Book Synopsis
      Diane Arbus''s startling photographic images of dwarfs, twins, transvestites, and freaks seemed from the first to redefine both the normal and the abnormal in our lives; they were already becoming part of the iconography of the age when Arbus committed suicide in 1971. Arbus herself remained an enigma until the publication of this first full biography. Patricia Bosworth examines the life behind the eerie, mesmerizing photographs: Diane''s pampered childhood; her passionate marriage to Allan Arbus and their work together as fashion photographers during the fifties; the emotional upheaval surrounding the end of that marriage; and the radically dark, liberating, and ultimately tragic turn Diane''s art took during the sixties. Bosworth''s engrossing book is a compassionate portrait of the woman behind some of the most powerful photographs of our time.

      Trade Review
      A biography that seems to have more than enough material for several art legends. Patricia Bosworth has created a spellbinding portrait * New York Magazine *
      Sensitive...detailed...balanced * New York Times *
      An excellent biography * Times Literary Supplement *
      A biography that seems to have more than enough material for several art legends. Patricia Bosworth has created a spellbinding portrait * New York Magazine *
      A spirited biography * Time *

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