Diane Arbus - Magazine Work (FIRST AMERICAN PRINTING) - 1984

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FANTASTIC PHOTOBOOK by legendary American photographer Diane Arbus (1923-1971) -
showing her impressive magazine work.

TRUE FIRST AMERICAN PRINTING (there were also later printings) in the scarce hardcover variant with original dustjacket.

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"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 each day by accident, and respected it for the precise intentional tool that it could be, given talent, intelligence, dedication and discipline.
Her pictures challenge the basic assumptions on which most so-called documentary photography has been assumed to rest. They 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, Director, Department of Photography, The Museum of Modern Art

Aperture, New York. 1984. First edition, first printing.

Hardcover with dustjacket. 232 x 280 mm. 176 pages. Photos and texts: Diane Arbus. Edited by: Doon Arbus and Marvin Israel. Essay: Thomas W. Southall. Translation into german: Carl Weissner. Text in English.

Condition:
Book inside fresh and flawless; clean with no marks and with no foxing. Book outside very fresh (protected by the jacket); some nicks at the bottom of the front, no other remarkable flaws or defects. Dustjacket fresh and complete with no tears and with no missing parts, light trace of use; one tear (acid-free) taped from behind. Overall fine condition.

Great photobook by Diane Arbus -
here in the true first American edition from 1984 (first German paperback was published in 1990).

"Diane Arbus was born in New York Citv on March 14. 1923. She was the middle child of three and her father, David Nemerov, owned a large Fifth A venue department store called Russek's. She grew up on Central Park West and attended the Ethical Culture and Fieldston Schools. At the are of fourteen, she met Allan Arbus and they were married four years later. They became fashion photographers and, for a number of years, worked for most of the major fashion magazines in the United States. In 1959. Diane studied photography with Lisette Model who, in a sense, gave her the license to seriously pursue her own work. She received Guggenheim Fellowships in 1963 and 1966.
A year later some of the results of those projects were exhibited by John Szarkowski at The Museum of Modern Art in a show representing the works of three photographers and entitled "New Documents." For her part in this exhibit she received great acclaim. Her photographs have since been included in the permanent collections of museums throughout the United States and Europe. In 1970, she made a portfolio of ten of her photographs which was to be the first of a series of limited editions of her work. Diane Arbus committed suicide on July 26, 1971. In July 1972 she was the first American photographer to be exhibited at the Venice Biennale."
(from the publisher of her first book)

Her first book was mentioned here:
- Andrew Roth, 101 books of books, pages 214-215
- Martin Parr, The Photobook, vol 1, page 258/259