Diane Arbus reconsidered
- Resource Type
- Authors
- Lori Pauli
- Source
- History of Photography. 29:202-205
- Subject
- Exhibition
Portrait
Visual Arts and Performing Arts
Modern art
Documentary photography
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Performance art
Art
Public attention
Visual arts
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- Language
- ISSN
- 2150-7295
0308-7298
The photographs of Diane Arbus have riveted public attention and generated controversy since first appearing on exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art (New York) in 1967. The brash and occasionally eccentric portraits quickly found an enthusiastic and broad audience. Along with Lee Friedlander, Danny Lyon, Garry Wino grand and Robert Frank, Diane Arbus (1923-1971) was instrumental in moving American documentary photography in new directions. A serious and in-depth examination of her work has been long overdue and these two monographs contribute substantially to that end.