"DIANE ARBUS IN THE BEGINNING 1956-1962" par Jeff L. ROSENHEIM. Editions Yale University Press, Londres, en collaboration avec The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. 2016. Imprimé en Espagne. Fort petit in-4, couverture cartonnée blanche titrée. 272 pages. Texte en anglais, avant-propos de Thomas P. Campbell, illustré de très nombreuses reproductions photographiques noir & blanc, in-texte et hors texte, par Diane Arbus. Ouvrage réalisé dans le cadre de l'exposition éponyme au Metropolitan Museum of Art de New York du 12 Juillet au 27 Novembre 2016 et au San Francisco Museum of Modern Art du 21 Janvier au 30 Avril 2017.

 

"In a high-school essay on Plato that she wrote at the age of sixteen, Diane Arbus described her sense of what was waiting to be discovered out there in the world. Her fascination with the differences between all things and, more significantly, between all people may have been part of what initially compelled her to pick up the camera. It certainly permeates her work from the beginning of her picture making in 1956 and sustains it to the end of her life fifteen years later. Arbus had started making photographs in the early 1940s and continued to do so sporadically for well over a decade. During the same period, she and her husband, Allan, were engaged in a moderately successful career in fashion photography – she has the art director/stylist, he has the photographer/technician – using the credit line "Diane & Allan Arbus". In 1956, she left the business partnership and committed herself full-time to her own work. When Arbus first ventured in the New York City streets to photograph, she was exploring much of the same terrain – pedestrian in Times Square, bathers at Coney Island, street fairs in Little Italy – as her predecessors and contemporaries, from Paul Strand and Walker Evans to Garry Winogrand and Lee Friedlander, among others. Each had a distinct way of working and, with the striking exception of Arbus, a way of remaining anonymous…" Jeff L. Rosenheim.

 

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