- Hardcover: 112 pages
- Publisher: Thames & Hudson Ltd (25 Sep 1995)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0500541981
- ISBN-13: 978-0500541982
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 2,240,076 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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A collection of photographs from the celebrated American photographer Diane Arbus, bringing together for the first time the work she produced during the final few years of her life. Born in New York in 1923, Arbus was an influential photographer in the 1960's. Her originality, both of subject matter and technological approach, attracted acclaim before her death in 1971 aged 48. There was a posthumous retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art in New York in 1972. With an afterword written by the photographer's daughter, Doon Arbus, this is the third volume of Arbus' work and the only one devoted to a single subject. The 52 photographs were taken at residences for the mentally retarded between 1969 and 1971.
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Diane Arbus is a vital figure in contemporary documenting photography. 'Untitled' is a series of Photographs that show female asylum inmates living on the edge of social acceptance. The images she photographs are so unusual and in some cases quite haunting. We find ourselves staring at these portraits of women like if we met them on the street, we are fearful and curious all at once. I beleive that if a piece of art can hold an audience for long enough that they find themselves getting sucked into the vortex of its content and are influenced in some way by the ideologies and expressions of the artist, the piece of art can not only be a success but a influence to society. This is what makes her work so remarkable. I beleive Diane Arbus to be the link between the dark side of society and the every day world. This book gives an indepth look into the 'untitled' series, would definitly recommend to any body with an open mind.
0 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Pleasant to have received this item in better condition than described, in good time i.e. promptly.
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20 of 20 people found the following review helpful
Damaged Lives, Perfected Photos
30 Mar 2000
Format:Hardcover
Exhibiting her pictures taken at homes for the mentally handicapped, this book made me feel both sorrow for the situations these people lived in, as well as the innate beauty of someone who doesn't judge and lives their life being joyous. Alternately smiling and furrowing my brow, I have looked through this book numerous times. These people don't pose for their photographs, they simply exist and Diane Arbus has captured their existence with an amazing beauty and personal touch.
13 of 13 people found the following review helpful
a work of startlingly brilliant photographic genius
8 Jan 2005
Format:Hardcover
Diane Arbus was to photography what Andrew Wyeth was to painting, or what Carson McCullers was to literature. Arbus's work was startingly beautiful--not in the conventional sense, but in the sense that the bare emotions conveyed by her subjects was simply beautiful in its humanity. Arbus photographed people that other photographers of the time weren't interested in capturing on their lenses--she was best at photographing those who lived on the outside of mainstream society, and her work was not only of immense honesty but also provided something of a character study for every person she photographed. This collection is composed of photographs she shot of mentally handicapped or disturbed individuals, shortly before her death. It is an unflinching, honest look at people who are largely either pitied or mocked by society.
11 of 12 people found the following review helpful
Subjectivity
9 Dec 2002
Format:Hardcover
A sad book, a mind-opening book, and many more things. Viewing these photographs will conjure up completely different personal reactions, depending upon your frame of mind at the time of viewing. That is what is so remarkable about Arbus' work; so many emotions are brought to the surface.
And while I know that some people will be turned off, even repulsed by this final phase of Arbus' work, I strongly disagree with the reviewer from Chico, CA in saying that it would have been better if this work has not been published. This work is not pretty, and it is not candy-coated, but it should be, and thankfully has been, published. Real life is not always pretty, and we each have our own concepts of such ideals. If you are uncomfortable with other's perspectives on beauty and reality, close the book or sell it to someone else. But do not impose your censorship on me.
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