Review: Arthur Lubow’s Diane Arbus Biography Recalls an Underworld Voyager – The New York Times

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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.

Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/03/books/review-arthur-lubows-diane-arbus-biography-recalls-an-underworld-voyager.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&_r=0

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.