Diane Arbus: In the Beginning/黛安·阿勃丝：一开始

书名：Diane Arbus: In the Beginning/黛安·阿勃丝：一开始

作者：Jeff L. Rosenheim
出版：Metropolitan Museum of Art，2016
装帧：精装，272页
尺寸：24.1*29.2 cm

对20世纪杰出艺术家早期作品的前所未有的概述

黛安·阿勃丝（Diane Arbus，1923-1971）是二十世纪最具特色和煽动性的艺术家之一。她拍摄的儿童和怪人、夫妇和马戏团演员、女性模仿者和裸体主义者的照片是我们这个时代最容易辨认的形象之一。这本书是对这位艺术家从1956年到1962年的前七年作品的权威研究。这本书主要取材于大都会博物馆黛安·阿勃丝档案馆的丰富藏品——一个由照片、底片、预约簿、笔记本和信件组成的非凡宝库——这是对我们理解阿勃丝及其作品的重要贡献。

黛安·阿勃丝：一开始展示了这位艺术家的100多张早期照片，其中一半以上是第一次在这里出版。这本书对这位艺术家的起源进行了至关重要的深入介绍，展示了阿勃丝发展她令人回味的、经常令人难以忘怀的意象的过程。这本漂亮的书中展示的照片揭示了一位艺术家定义了她的风格，磨练了她的主题，并完全拥有她现在被全世界认可的许多天赋。

An unprecedented overview of the early work of a preeminent 20th-century artist

Diane Arbus (1923–1971) is one of the most distinctive and provocative artists of the twentieth century. Her photographs of children and eccentrics, couples and circus performers, female impersonators and nudists, are among the most recognizable images of our time. This book is the definitive study of the artist’s first seven years of work, from 1956 to 1962. Drawn primarily from the rich holdings of the Metropolitan Museum’s Diane Arbus Archive—a remarkable treasury of photographs, negatives, appointment books, notebooks, and correspondence—it is an essential contribution to our understanding of Arbus and her oeuvre.

diane arbus: in the beginning showcases over 100 of the artist’s early photographs, more than half of which are published here for the first time. The book provides a crucial, in-depth presentation of the artist’s genesis, showing Arbus as she developed her evocative and often haunting imagery. The photographs featured in this handsome volume reveal an artist defining her style, honing her subject matter, and in full possession of the many gifts for which she is now recognized the world over.