Diane Arbus Revelations (New ed) /English

Revelations - Aperture reprints this classic for the 50th anniversary anniversary of the 1972 posthumous retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art and the simultaneous publication of Diane Arbus: An Aperture Monograph. \n \nRevelations explores the origins, scope and aspirations of the voice completely original from Arbus. The frankness with which Diane Arbus treats her subjects and his belief in the intrinsic power of the medium produced a body of work often shocking in its purity, in its unwavering celebration of things as they are. The presentation of a large number of his photographs lesser known or unpublished in the context of iconic images reveals a subtle but persistent vision of the world. \n \nThe book reproduces two hundred full-page duotones of photographs by Diane Arbus covering her entire career. It also includes a new contribution from Sarah Meister, Aperture director, as well as essays by Sandra S. Phillips, curator at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and a discussion on techniques Diane Arbus's print by Neil Selkirk, the only person authorized to print his photographs since his death. A detailed chronology, written by Elisabeth Sussman, guest curator of the San Francisco exhibition Museum of Modern Art, and Doon Arbus, the artist's eldest daughter, is pictured by more than three hundred additional images and composed mainly excerpts from the artist's letters, notebooks and other writings, which constitute a kind of autobiography. \n \nA postface by Doon Arbus precedes notices biographies of the photographer's friends and colleagues, compiled by Jeff L. Rosenheim, curator in charge of the photography department of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. These texts help to shed light on the sense of Diane Arbus' controversial and astonishing vision.