Author(s): Diane Arbus

Photography

A collection of photographs from the celebrated American photographer Diane Arbus, bringing together for the first time the work she produced during the final few years of her life. Born in New York in 1923, Arbus was an influential photographer in the 1960's. Her originality, both of subject matter and technological approach, attracted acclaim before her death in 1971 aged 48. There was a posthumous retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art in New York in 1972. With an afterword written by the photographer's daughter, Doon Arbus, this is the third volume of Arbus' work and the only one devoted to a single subject. The 52 photographs were taken at residences for the mentally retarded between 1969 and 1971.