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Diane Arbus: An Aperture Monograph

Door Doon Arbus e.a.

Categorie
Fotografie (Kunst)
Boeknummer
#311474-KL7
Titel
Diane Arbus: An Aperture Monograph
Auteur
Arbus, Doon & Marvin Israel
Boektype
Paperback
Uitgeverij
New York : Aperture
Jaar van uitgave
2012
ISBN10
1597111759
ISBN13
9781597111751
Taal
Engels
Beschrijving
Original wrappers, richly illustrated with full page b/w photgraphs.
Samenvatting
Diane Arbus was not a theorist but an artist. Her concern was not to buttress philosophical positions but to make pictures. She loved photography for the miracles it performs every day by accident, and respected it for the precise intentional tool that it could be, given talent, intelligence, dedication and discipline. Her pictures are concerned with private rather than social realities, with psychological rather than visual coherence, with the prototypical and mythic rather than the topical and temporal. Her real subject is no less than the unique interior lives of those she photographed. –John Szarkowski, 1972, Director, Department of Photography, The Museum of Modern Art
Those portraits of sideshow performers and weeping children, her matter-of-fact nudists and naked transvestite
... (Lees verder)s, her pictures of "them," her pictures of "us"? something of consequence is at stake here, and it's not just art. Arbus worked at the point where the voyeuristic and the sacramental converge. She lies in wait for your first misstep in her direction. Then she dares you to stare at something? a little boy with a toy hand grenade, a dominatrix embracing her client? until you admit your own complicity with whatever it is in there that frightens you. At that point, all the picture's traps unfold, and it confers its rough grace. –Richard Lacayo, Time
Confronting a major photograph by Arbus, you lose your ability to know? or distinctly to think or feel, and certainly to judge? anything. She turned picture-making inside out. She didn't gaze at her subjects; she induced them to gaze at her. Selected for their powers of strangeness and confidence, they burst through the camera lens with a presence so intense that whatever attitude she or you or anyone might take toward them disintegrates…You may feel, crazily, that you have never really seen a photograph before. –Peter Schjeldahl The New Yorker
Pagina's
182
Conditie
Goed
Prijs
€ 40,00

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