Tag: Diane Arbus

  • 13 Stories That Captured Photography in 2018 – The New York Times

    13 Stories That Captured Photography in 2018 – The New York Times

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    13 Stories That Captured Photography in 2018 Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/26/lens/best-stories-photography-2018.html Because photography touches most everything, our topics have been far-ranging — from the environment, cyberbullying and immigration to race, gender and class. We have written about famed photographers like Dorothea Lange, Gordon Parks and Diane Arbus as well as emerging image makers like Citlali Fabián, Fethi…

  • The Transformative Nature of the Photographs of Diane Arbus – The New York Times

    The Transformative Nature of the Photographs of Diane Arbus – The New York Times

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    The Transformative Nature of the Photographs of Diane Arbus Diane Arbus’s portfolio “A Box of Ten Photographs” was pivotal in the acceptance of photography by the art world. A book published by Aperture and the Smithsonian American Art Museum examines the portfolio and its impact. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/21/lens/the-transformative-nature-of-the-photographs-of-diane-arbus.html Diane Arbus’s portfolio “A Box of Ten Photographs”…

  • Diane Arbus Gets NY Times Obituary 46 Years After Her Death

    Diane Arbus Gets NY Times Obituary 46 Years After Her Death

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    Diane Arbus Gets NY Times Obituary 46 Years After Her Death Diane Arbus was honored with an obituary by the New York Times today, 46 years after the renowned American portrait photographer died. It was one of 15 via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2018/03/08/diane-arbus-gets-ny-times-obituary-46-years-death/ Diane Arbus was honored with an obituary by the New York Times today, 46…

  • The Art of Difference | by Hilton Als | The New York Review of Books

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    The Art of Difference The story Diane Arbus told with her camera was about shape-shifting: in order to understand difference one had to not only not dismiss it, but try to become it. “I don’t like to arrange things,” she once said. “If I stand in front of something, instead of via The New York…

  • 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 – The New York Times

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    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…

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

    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…

  • DIANE ARBUS: "Notes from the Margin of Spoiled Identity – The Art of Diane Arbus" (1988)

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    American Suburb X: The principal issue raised by the remarkable photographs of Diane Arbus seems not to be their remarkableness, which few would dispute, but their morality. The very potency of her images, their dangerous, disturbing allure, demands an almost instantaneous moral judgement on the part of the viewer. Her pictures call forth an immediate…

  • Exposed: Voyeurism, Surveillance and the Camera

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    Exposed: Voyeurism, Surveillance and the Camera | Photography review The thin dividing line between photographic observation and intrusion is examined in a challenging and disturbing exhibition at Tate Modern, writes Sean O’Hagan via the Guardian: http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2010/may/16/exposed-voyeurism-surveillance-camera-review “Photography,” Diane Arbus once said, “was a licence to go wherever I wanted and to do what I wanted…

  • A Visual Chronicler of Humanity's Underbelly, Draped in a Pelt of Perversity

    A Visual Chronicler of Humanity's Underbelly, Draped in a Pelt of Perversity

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    NYT: The new film “Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus” is a fantasy of a different order. Its marble-white Venus is Nicole Kidman, who here wears a conceit rather than a sable. The film’s core idea is that Diane Arbus, who trained her photographic gaze on nudists, twins, grimacing children and the retarded, liberated…