Their aim has been not to reform life, but to know it. In the past decade a new generation of photographers has directed the documentary approach toward more personal ends. Retrospectives of her work have been shown at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, and The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.ĪCTIVE BACKLIST Arbus Friedlander Winogrand: New Documents, 1967 THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART, NEW YORK Edited with text by Sarah Hermanson Meister. Two Guggenheim awards (19) allowed her to travel and undertake her own projects. Born in New York in 1923, by the 1950s she was supporting herself by working for magazines such as Vogue and Glamour. During a relatively brief career, Diane Arbus created a distinctly personal style of portraiture that made her one of the great 20th-century photographers. But, for her, the beauty of the photograph originated in the thing itself."ĭoon Arbus, excerpted from the afterword to Untitled. There are beautiful photographs here and making beautiful photographs was important to her. She wasn't interested in self-expression. "She wasn't interested in making pictures that looked like art, or illustrated an opinion, or showed us things the way we wished they were. PHOTOGRAPHY MONOGRAPHS Diane Arbus Museum Exhibition Catalogues, Monographs, Artist's Projects, Curatorial Writings and Essays
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