Article: Diane Arbus: a Biography.(Book Review)

Diane Arbus: A Biography. By Patricia Bosworth. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1984. $17.95 (h. b.)

Diane Arbus photographed the dark side of physical and spiritual reality. Her work is remarkably free of voyeurism, and this is the magic of her art. She is one with her subjects--transvestites, dwarfs, retardates--and so are we. When she died by her own hand in 1971, Arbus' freaks and snapshot style (square mat with flash) were a seminal force in modern photography. Patricia Bosworth's biography is the first book-length study of Arbus' life and images. The author of the highly acclaimed Montgomery Cliff, Bosworth deftly explores those worlds which shaped the peculiar ...

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