Diane Arbus: Revelations

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The definitive biographical reference on Arbus and her work An irresistible visual object containing a treasure trove of more than five hundred duotone and four-color images A best-selling and award-winning title, newly back in print

Diane Arbus (1923-1971; born in New York) revolutionized the terms of the art she practiced. In addition to Diane Arbus: Revelations, four other volumes of her work have been published posthumously and have remained continuously in print: Diane Arbus: An Aperture Monograph (1972), Untitled: Diane Arbus (1995), Diane Arbus: A Chronology (2011), and Diane Arbus: A box of 10 photographs (2018, with Smithsonian American Art Museum). Doon Arbus is the eldest daughter of Diane and Allan Arbus; since her mother's death she has managed the Estate of Diane Arbus. Sarah H. Meister is executive director of Aperture, following more than twenty-five years at the Museum of Modern Art, New York. Sandra S. Phillips is curator emerita of photography at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, where she cocurated Diane Arbus: Revelations (2003). Jeff L. Rosenheim is curator in charge of the Department of Photographs at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Neil Selkirk printed Diane Arbus's work for the 1972 posthumous retrospective exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, and has since been the only authorized person to create prints from her photographs. Elisabeth Sussman is the Sondra Gilman Curator of Photography at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. She served as guest cocurator for the retrospective Diane Arbus: Revelations (2003).