Review: Arthur Lubow’s Diane Arbus Biography Recalls an Underworld Voyager
This account of Arbus’s life, while not skimping on sordid details, demonstrates the defects and virtues of consummate professionalism.
Arthur Lubow’s new “Diane Arbus: Portrait of a Photographer” is the second major biography of this complicated and controversial artist, after Patricia Bosworth’s “Diane Arbus: A Biography,” published in 1984. Both books pull you into a scenic and moral underworld. The details of Arbus’s troubled life cast a spell.