Through Her Lens Darkly: Diane Arbus’s Life Was as Raw as Her Work – The New York Times

Through Her Lens Darkly: Diane Arbus’s Life Was as Raw as Her Work

A biography of Diane Arbus links her charged imagery to an often fraught personal life.

Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/03/books/review/diane-arbus-biography-by-arthur-lubow.html?contentCollection=weekendreads&_r=0

Arbus is possibly the closest thing America has to Kafka, a profound ironist who simply did not see the world in conventional terms and was — when you strip away the nice-making, the wheedling for money or support and the expressions of garden- variety depression — incapable of saying anything uncompelling