Artist Works
Arbus, Diane. Diane Arbus, Magazine work. Millerton, N.Y.: Aperture, c1984. [Art TR820 .A67 1984]
This book contains both photo and text from Arbus' commissioned magazine work after she broke away from fashion photography. It is tremendously important, as it contains information about her subjects and their lives otherwise unknown to the museum-goer. It also contains some of her photographs of the rich and famous and demonstrates how she captures the emotional cracks of those considered the most normal, the most successful.
Arbus, Diane. Diane Arbus. Millerton, N.Y.: Aperture, 1972. [Art
and Art Cage TR647.A7
A69]
This monograph was published in conjunction with Arbus's posthumous 1972 retrospective exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. It contains 80 photographs, selected and edited by her daughter, Doon and her friend and colleague, Marvin Israel. There is little text, so the volume speaks for itself as a primary source for her work and a gateway into the psyches of her sitters.
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Diane Arbus: Revelations. New York, NY: Random House, 2003. [Duke Lilly Library --- 770.92 A667, D538, 2003 ]
This is perhaps the most important and comprehensive book on Arbus ever published. It contains photos, and contact sheet, showing the series of photographs that led up to her most famous photos. Also included are family photos, photographs of journals and slips of paper, magazine articles, essays by friends, many items of correspondence, reproduction of postcards.
