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Cargando... Diane Arbus: A Biographypor Patricia Bosworth
![]() Ninguno Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. ![]() ![]() After seeing some wildly disturbing photos by Arbus in a museum years and years ago, I purchased this bio to try to understand the mind that created them. Bosworth's book clearly presented the evolutionary process of Arbus' photography, and in doing so gave an understanding to the linear progression of thought some artist's work through. A lot of Arbus's life in this that was new to me. It seemed though to be rather weighty at the beginning about her younger life in terms of facts and information compared to her later years which seemed to me to be glossed over through lack of information & in many instances mini bio's of people Arbus was associated with were used as filler. While Bosworth says at the start the family wouldn't talk to her for the book, there are a lot of quotes from various family members. I was stunned to read that Arbus's work extends into thousands & thousands of prints and most have not been published or seen and for whatever reason the family is holding onto those works. Bosworth mentions Diane's depression throughout and her subsequent suicide, but does not go far enough to any sort of resolution. There's a lot not said, or perhaps not known, although some portion of blame is assigned to her illness of hepatitis & toxic effects of medications and it would be interesting to hear other views. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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Diane Arbus (1923-1971) pertenece a una brillante generacion de creadoras norteamericanas -corno Sylvia Plath o Anne Sexton- que pagaron con la vida su entrega incondicional al arte. Hija de una acaudalada familia de comerciantes judios, Diane se alejo pronto de los elegantes salones de Park Avenue a los que parecia estar predestinada. Ya en la decada de los cincuenta trabajo con su marido para algunas revistas selectas, donde ambos se labraron un solido prestigio como fotografos de modas. Pero en los anos sesenta Diane Arbus decidio volar en solitario, aprovechando su extraordinario instinto para captar el lado grotesco de la vida. Comenzo asi una intensa a inusual carrera fotografica en la que se dedico a retratar de forma implacable aquellos personajes proscritos en el papel couche: mendigos, prostitutas, travestis, monstruos de feria, nudistas, perturbados mentales..., una come esperpentica de criaturas solitarias que simbolizaban para ella el rostro amargo del Sueno Americano.En esta rigurosa biografia Patricia Bosworth reconstruye con vigor y ritmo de novela la apasionante peripecia de una mujer que desde el confort quiso conocer y dar testimonio de lo prohibido, pero que, como recuerda la gran escritora Susan Sontag, 'tras haber transgredido ciertos limites cayo en una emboscada psiquica, victima de su propio candor y curiosidad'. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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