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Article: Diane Arbus: two new books: Revelations and Family Albums.(Essay)
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Two new Arbus books.
Review of Diane Arbus: Revelations.
Random House, 2003. Anthony Lee and John Pultz.
Diane Arbus: Family Albums.
New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2003.
Until recently New York photographer Diane Arbus (1923-1971) was most commonly associated with the depiction of "freaks"--transvestites, dwarves, giants, circus performers, and eccentrics. Mythologized as a Sylvia Plath with a camera who exploited the abject psychological trauma of her sitters, Arbus's work has most often read as a self-portrait of sorts, an investigation of her own, often sordid, neuroses through a new approach to journalistic ...