Who Is Marvin Israel?
Grouchy, antagonistic, and brilliant, according to those who knew him, Marvin Israel was a relatively unknown man of great cultural power, not least in the…
via The New Yorker: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/photobooth/2011/12/who-is-marvin-israel.html?currentPage=all
As art director for Harper’s Bazaar in the sixties, Israel published the work of Richard Avedon and Walker Evans alongside that of less established photographers such as Bill Brandt and Lee Friedlander. “The whole point of Bazaar, with Marvin, was that you never just ran a beautiful portfolio of extraordinarily beautiful women retouched,” the art director Ruth Ansel says. “You ran also a Diane Arbus portfolio of strange people who tattooed their body and lived on the Bowery, to have a counterbalance.”