DIANE ARBUS, BOOK, "Diane Arbus. An Aperture Monograph", Diane Arbus, special edition The Museum of Modern Art 1972.
Soft cover. Plastic dust jacket. Published in 1972. First edition. Includes the plate "Two girls in identical raincoats, Central Park, N.Y.C. 1969" that was excluded in the later editions due to model-release issues. 28 x 23.5 cm.
Cover with wear, time stains, soft corners and surface dirt. Back with damages.
Pages with time stains and some discolouration to the extreme edges.
First page with notations in pencil.
Not thoroughly examined.
When Diane Arbus died in 1971 at the age of 48, she was already a significant influence—even a legend—among serious photographers, although only a small number of her pictures were widely known. The publication of Diane Arbus: An Aperture Monograph in 1972, and the posthumous retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art, offered the public its first encounter with Arbus’s achievements. The response was unprecedented.