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Diane Arbus: Family Albums - Lee, Anthony W.; Pultz, John - Yale University Press
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Sep 22, 2003
168 p., 9 x 10
65 duotones
ISBN: 9780300101461
ISBN-10: 0300101465
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PB-Flexibound: $40.00 sc
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History
Published in association with the Mount Holyoke College Art Museum and the Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas
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Diane Arbus: Family Albums
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Anthony W. Lee and John Pultz
Diane Arbus (1923–1971) is renowned for her provocative and unsettling portraits of modern Americans. This book presents a significant body of previously unpublished pictures by Arbus and proposes a radically new way to understand her goals, strategies, and overall work.
Diane Arbus: Family Albums examines unknown contact sheets from several of Arbus’s portrait sessions, including more than three hundred photographs she took of a New York family one weekend in 1969. Anthony W. Lee and John Pultz put to the test Arbus’s claim that she was developing a “family album.” They present other images Arbus shot for Esquire magazine (including pictures of the families of Ricky Nelson, Jayne Mansfield, and Ogden Reid) and discuss her interest in photographic groupings of both traditional and alternative families. Challenging common interpretations of Arbus, the authors reveal a photographer far more savvy with the camera, more aware of photography as an artistic and commercial practice, and more sensitive to the social and cultural tensions of the 1960s than has been acknowledged before.
Anthony W. Lee is associate professor of art history and chair of American studies at Mount Holyoke College. John Pultz is associate professor in the Kress Foundation Department of Art History and curator of photography at the Spencer Museum of Art at the University of Kansas.
EXHIBITION SCHEDULE
Reynolda House, Museum of American Art, Winston-Salem, NC (September 25- December 4, 2005) TITLES IN RELATED CATEGORIES
 
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