{"title":"Diane Arbus","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDiane Arbus\u003c\/strong\u003e is renowned for her compelling and often unsettling photographic explorations of marginalised and extraordinary subjects. Her work captures intimate moments with a raw honesty that challenges conventional notions of beauty and normality, inviting readers into a world where the overlooked find their voice.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis collection offers a deep dive into Arbus’s distinctive vision through monographs and critical documents, revealing the layers of meaning and context behind her powerful imagery. Ideal for lovers of \u003cem\u003eArts \u0026amp; Culture\u003c\/em\u003e, these books provide both visual inspiration and thoughtful commentary on one of photography’s most influential figures.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"diane-arbus-documents-by-diane-arbus-9781644230657","title":"Diane Arbus Documents","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eKnown for her evocative portraits, Diane Arbus is a pivotal figure in American postwar photography. Undeniably striking, Arbus's black-and-white photographs capture a unique gaze. Criticized as well as lauded for her photographs of people deemed \"outsiders,\" Arbus continues to attract a diversity of opinions surrounding her subjects and practice. Critics and writers have described her work as \"sinister\" and \"appalling\" as well as \"revelatory,\" \"sincere,\" and \"compassionate.\" In the absence of Arbus's own voice, art criticism and cultural shifts have shaped the language attributed to her work.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOrganized in eleven sections that focus on major exhibitions and significant events in Arbus's life, as well as on her practice and her subjects, the seventy facsimiles of articles and essays—an archive by all accounts—trace the discourse on Diane Arbus, contextualizing her hugely successful oeuvre. Also with an annotated bibliography of more than six hundred entries and a comprehensive exhibition history, \u003cem\u003eDiane Arbus Documents\u003c\/em\u003e serves as an important resource for photographers, researchers, art historians, and art critics, in addition to students of art criticism and the interested reader alike.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Thames and Hudson (Australia) Pty Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47362554921196,"sku":"9781644230657","price":180.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/11210903482773.jpg?v=1772891825"},{"product_id":"diane-arbus-an-aperture-monograph-by-diane-arbus-9781597111744","title":"Diane Arbus: An Aperture Monograph","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhen Diane Arbus died in 1971 at the age of forty-eight, she was already a significant influence—even something of a legend—among serious photographers, although only a relatively small number of her most important pictures were widely known at the time.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe publication of \u003cem\u003eDiane Arbus: An Aperture Monograph\u003c\/em\u003e in 1972—along with the posthumous retrospective at The Museum of Modern Art—offered the general public its first encounter with the breadth and power of her achievements. The response was unprecedented.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe monograph of eighty photographs was edited and designed by the painter Marvin Israel, Diane Arbus' friend and colleague, and by her daughter Doon Arbus. Their goal in making the book was to remain as faithful as possible to the standards by which Diane Arbus judged her own work and to the ways in which she hoped it would be seen.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eUniversally acknowledged as a classic, \u003cem\u003eDiane Arbus: An Aperture Monograph\u003c\/em\u003e is a timeless masterpiece with editions in five languages and remains the foundation of her international reputation. Nearly half of a century has done nothing to diminish the riveting impact of these pictures or the controversy they inspire.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eArbus' photographs penetrate the psyche with all the force of a personal encounter and, in doing so, transform the way we see the world and the people in it. This is the first edition in which the image separations were created digitally; the files have been specially prepared by Robert J. Hennessey using prints by Neil Selkirk.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47424042303724,"sku":"9781597111744","price":115.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781597111744.jpg?v=1774769348"},{"product_id":"untitled-diane-arbus-by-diane-arbus-9781597111904","title":"Untitled: Diane Arbus","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eUntitled\u003c\/em\u003e is the third volume of Diane Arbus's work and the only one devoted exclusively to a single project. The photographs were taken at residences for the mentally retarded between 1969 and 1971, in the last years of Arbus's life. Although she considered doing a book on the subject, the vast majority of these pictures remained unpublished prior to this volume.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThese photographs achieve a lyricism, an emotional purity that sets them apart from all her other accomplishments. \u003cem\u003eFinally what I've been searching for\u003c\/em\u003e, she wrote at the time. The product of her consistently unflinching regard for reality as she found it, the images in this book have less in common with the documentary than with the mythic.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eUntitled\u003c\/em\u003e may well be Arbus's most transcendent, most romantic vision. It is a celebration of the singularity and connectedness of each and every one of us. For Diane Arbus, this is what making pictures was all about.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47464761950444,"sku":"9781597111904","price":130.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781597111904-untitled-diane-arbus.jpg?v=1775053404"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/collections\/diane-arbus.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}