The Photography of Diane Arbus

[Ken Nadvornick]

Have you read Revelations? http://www.amazon.com/Diane-Arbus-R...8&sr=8-1&keywords=book+diane+arbus+revelation That's the only Arbus book I have and I thought it was a fairly thorough look at her life and photography.

Not yet, no. But I plan to. The Schultz book post-dates Revelations by about eight years. He refers to it in several places.

It's worth noting that Revelations is an estate-authorized work, whereas the Schultz effort is not. Accordingly, there was no assistance rendered by the estate to the author (and no included Arbus photo illustrations either). But the upside to this is that Schultz was able to delve far more deeply into areas that are most definitely off limits. Or even taboo.

Bosworth is a fairly conventional biographical work. It's an interesting read and establishes a common framework of understanding. Schultz is a psychological biography, and is quite the different animal. Bosworth attempts to answer the what. But Schultz attempts to answer the why, a far more difficult task.

Ken