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Diane Arbus: Revelations (Hardcover)
Diane Arbus; Text written by Doon Arbus, Sarah H Meister, Sandra S Phillips, Jeff L. Rosenheim, …
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To ensure the ongoing availability of Diane Arbus Revelations,
Aperture is proud to release this vitally important volume on the
fiftieth anniversary of the posthumous 1972 Arbus retrospective at
the Museum of Modern Art and the simultaneous publication of Diane
Arbus: An Aperture Monograph. Revelations explores the origins,
scope, and aspirations of Arbus's wholly original voice. Arbus's
frank treatment of her subjects and her faith in the intrinsic
power of the medium have produced a body of work that is often
shocking in its purity, in its steadfast celebration of things as
they are. Presenting many of her lesser-known or previously
unpublished photographs in the context of the iconic images reveals
a subtle yet persistent view of the world. The book reproduces two
hundred full-page duotones of Diane Arbus photographs spanning her
entire career. It also includes a new contribution by Sarah
Meister, executive director of Aperture, alongside essays by Sandra
S. Phillips, senior curator of photography, emeritus, at the San
Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and a discussion of Arbus's
printing techniques by Neil Selkirk, the only person authorized to
print her photographs since her death. An extensive chronology by
Elisabeth Sussman, guest curator of the San Francisco Museum of
Modern Art show, and Doon Arbus, the artist's eldest daughter, is
illustrated by more than three hundred additional images and
composed primarily of excerpts from the artist's letters,
notebooks, and other writings, amounting to a kind of
autobiography. An afterword by Doon Arbus precedes biographical
entries on the photographer's friends and colleagues, compiled by
Jeff L. Rosenheim, curator in charge of the Department of
Photographs at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. These
texts help illuminate the meaning of Diane Arbus's controversial
and astonishing vision.
Following the death of a renowned and eccentric collector-author of
Stuff, a seminal philosophical work on the art of accumulation-the
fate of the privately endowed museum he cherished falls to a
peripatetic stranger who had been his fervent admirer. This
peculiar institution (The Society for the Preservation of the
Legacy of Dr Charles Alexander Morgan) is dedicated to the
annihilation of hierarchy: peerless antiquities commune happily
with the ignored, the discarded, the undervalued and the valueless.
What transpires as the caretaker assumes dominion over this
reliquary of voiceless objects and over its visitors is told in a
manner at once obsessive and matter of fact, and in language both
cocooning and expansive. A wry and haunting tale, The Caretaker,
like the interplanetary crystal that is one of the museum's
treasures, is rare, glistening and of a compacted inwardness. Kafka
or Shirley Jackson may come to mind, and The Caretaker may conjure
up various genres-parables, ghost stories, locked-room
mysteries-but Doon Arbus draws
Following the death of a renowned and eccentric collector-the
author of Stuff, a seminal philosophical work on the art of
accumulation-the fate of the privately endowed museum he cherished
falls to a peripatetic stranger who had been his fervent admirer.
In his new role as caretaker of The Society for the Preservation of
the Legacy of Dr. Charles Morgan, this restive man, in service to
an absent master, at last finds his calling. The peculiar
institution over which he presides is dedicated to the annihilation
of hierarchy: peerless antiquities commune happily with the
ignored, the discarded, the undervalued and the valueless. What
transpires as the caretaker assumes dominion over this reliquary of
voiceless objects and over its visitors is told in a manner at once
obsessive and matter-of-fact, and in language both cocooning and
expansive. A wry and haunting tale, The Caretaker, like the
interplanetary crystal that is one of the museum's treasures, is
rare, glistening, and of a compacted inwardness. Kafka or Shirley
Jackson may come to mind, and The Caretaker may conjure up various
genres-parables, ghost stories, locked-room mysteries-but Doon
Arbus draws her phosphorescent water from no other writer's well.
"Diane Arbus: A Chronology" is the closest thing possible to a
contemporaneous diary by one of the most daring, influential and
controversial artists of the twentieth century. Drawn primarily
from Arbus' extensive correspondence with friends, family and
colleagues, personal notebooks and other unpublished writings, this
beautifully produced volume reveals the private thoughts and
motivations of an artist whose astonishing vision derived from the
courage to see things as they are and the grace to permit them
simply to be. Further rounding out Arbus' life and work are
exhaustively researched footnotes that amplify the entire
chronology. A section at the end of the book provides biographies
for 55 family members, friends and colleagues, from Marvin Israel
and Lisette Model to Weegee and August Sander. Describing the
"Chronology" in "Art in America," Leo Rubinfien noted that
"Arbus... wrote as well as she photographed, and her letters, where
she heard each nuance of her words, were gifts to the people who
received them. Once one has been introduced to it, the beauty of
her spirit permanently changes and deepens one's understanding of
her pictures." The texts in "Diane Arbus: A Chronology" originally
appeared in "Diane Arbus: Revelations." This volume makes this
invaluable material available in an accessible, unique paperback
edition for the very first time.
Diane Arbus (1923-1971) revolutionized the terms of the art she
practiced. Three volumes of her photographs have been published
posthumously by Aperture and have remained continuously available.
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