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Author Lee, Anthony W., 1960-

Title Diane Arbus : family albums / Anthony W. Lee and John Pultz
Published New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, 2003

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 MELB  779.2092 Arbus Lee/Daf  AVAILABLE
 MELB  779.2092 Arbus Lee/Daf  AVAILABLE
Description xvi, 62 pages, [42, 26] of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 29 cm
Contents Introduction / Anthony W. Lee and John Pultz -- Searching for Diane Arbus's "Family Album" in Her Box of Ten Photographs, Monograph, and Esquire Work / John Pultz -- Noah's Ark, Arbus's Album / Anthony W. Lee
Summary "The book is based on a study of 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 engage with Arbus's claim that she was developing a "family album," and 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. Lee and Pultz take issue with the standard interpretation of Arbus - that her interest in people outside the mainstream was somehow representative of her own emotional and social life. Instead, they 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."--BOOK JACKET
Notes "Published on the occasion of the exhibition Diane Arbus: Family albums organized by the Mount Holyoke College Art Museum and the Spencer Museum of Art, the University of Kansas"--T.p. verso
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Subject Arbus, Diane, 1923-1971 -- Exhibitions.
Photography of families -- Exhibitions.
Genre/Form Exhibition catalogs.
Author Pultz, John.
Mount Holyoke College. Art Museum.
Helen Foresman Spencer Museum of Art.
LC no. 2003050065
ISBN 0300101465 alkaline paper