书名：Diane Arbus: A box of ten photographs / 黛安·阿勃丝：一盒十张照片
定价：700.0
ISBN：9781597114394
作者：John P. Jacob
版次：1
出版时间：2018-01

内容提要：

书名：Diane Arbus: A box of ten photographs / 黛安·阿勃丝：一盒十张照片
作者：Diane Arbus (摄影)；John P. Jacob (策展/文字)
出版社：Aperture (与史密森尼美国艺术博物馆联合出版)，2018年
装帧：精装，110页
语种：英文
尺寸：约 27.9*35.6*2.0 cm (11 x 14 x 0.8 英寸)
ISBN：978-1-5971-1439-4

简介

1971年5月，作为晚期现代主义堡垒的《Artforum》杂志首次刊登了一位摄影师的作品——在封面和六页的篇幅中发表了黛安·阿勃丝《一盒十张照片》中的精选作品。用该杂志主编、摄影怀疑论者菲利普·莱德的话来说：“这个作品集改变了一切……人们再也无法否认（摄影）作为艺术的身份。”

阿勃丝去世时（两个月后），计划的五十版作品集仅售出四套：两套由理查德·阿韦顿购买（一套自留，一套赠予朋友迈克·尼科尔斯）；一套由贾斯珀·琼斯购买；第四套由《时尚芭莎》艺术总监贝娅·费特勒购买。阿勃丝为所有四套作品集的照片签名，每张照片附有一张带题注的硫酸纸插页。为费特勒制作的版本中，她还额外加入了第十一张照片《新泽西州抱猴子的女人，1971》。

史密森尼美国艺术博物馆于1986年购得这组为费特勒特制的作品集，它是阿勃丝生前完成并售出的四套中唯一公开收藏的一套。本书正是该传奇作品的复制品。史密森尼策展人约翰·P·雅各布在准备本书与展览期间发掘了大量新资料，讲述了这个开创性作品的创作、制作及其持续影响的迷人故事。

In May 1971, Artforum, bastion of late modernism, featured the work of a photographer for the very first time. On its cover and in a six-page spread, it published selections from Diane Arbus's portfolio, A box of ten photographs. In the words of the magazine's editor and photography skeptic, Philip Leider, "The portfolio changed everything . . . one could no longer deny [photography's] status as art." 

At the time of Arbus's death, two months later, only four of the intended edition of fifty had been sold. Two had been purchased from Arbus by Richard Avedon (the first for himself, the second as a gift for his friend Mike Nichols); another was purchased by Jasper Johns; and a fourth by Bea Feitler, art director at Harper's Bazaar.  Arbus signed the prints in all four sets; each print was accompanied by an interleaving vellum slip-sheet inscribed with an extended caption. For Feitler, Arbus added an eleventh photograph, A woman with her baby monkey, N.J., 1971. 

Acquired by the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC, in 1986—and the only one of the four completed and sold by Arbus that is publicly held—that portfolio was the subject of an exhibition on view in 2018.  This exceptional book replicates the nature of Diane Arbus's original and now legendary object. Smithsonian curator John P. Jacob, who has unearthed a trove of new information in preparing the book and exhibition, weaves a fascinating tale of the creation, production, and continuing repercussions of this seminal work.