{"id":11205,"date":"2011-06-03T06:07:29","date_gmt":"2011-06-03T13:07:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/?p=11205"},"modified":"2021-09-30T12:05:04","modified_gmt":"2021-09-30T19:05:04","slug":"featured-diane-arbus-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/archives\/featured-diane-arbus-2\/","title":{"rendered":"FEATURED: DIANE ARBUS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span class=\"first3words\">Before her suicide in 1971 Diane Arbus was pioneering a new documentary approach to photography. <\/span>Her subject was to come from the fringes of society; transvestites, giants, midgets, nudists, and others who have been marginalized by the larger society as a whole. Her portraits have the power to both provoke and disturb. The viewer is drawn in and soon realizes that no matter how freakish her subjects might seem, they are in fact uniquely perfect in their own way.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Description:<\/strong> True first edition. Hard bound in dust jacket.\u00a0 Meets the point of issue &#8211; &#8221; 2 girls with identical raincoats &#8220;. Published in 1972 one year after the photographers death, in conjunction with a major retrospective exhibition held by the MoMA in New York. The only edition with the complete photographs,\u00a0 lacking in later editions. One of the Seminal photography books of the 20th century. White boards show some faint foxing near edges and corners. Minor damp staining to lower edge of rear board, otherwise fine. An important monograph on a photographer who is still gaining in popularity. Rare first printing of the true first edition!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Inventory #<\/strong> 25442<span style=\"color: #0000ee;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"sold\">SOLD<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Diane Arbus: An Aperture Monograph<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Publisher: <span id=\"biblio-publisher\">Aperture<\/span><br \/>\nPublication Date: <span id=\"biblio-pubdate\">1972<\/span><br \/>\nBinding: <span id=\"biblio-binding\">Hard Cover<\/span><br \/>\nBook Condition: <span id=\"biblio-bookcondition\">Very Good<\/span><br \/>\nDust Jacket Condition:<span id=\"biblio-dustjacketcondition\"> Very Good<\/span><br \/>\nEdition: <span id=\"biblio-edition\">First Edition<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before her suicide in 1971 Diane Arbus was pioneering a new documentary approach to photography. Her subject was to come from the fringes of society; transvestites, giants, midgets, nudists, and others who have been marginalized by the larger society as a whole. Her portraits have the power to both provoke and disturb. The viewer is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[105],"tags":[91,87,83,102,84,110,60,90,85,86,11,81,15,88,89,17],"class_list":["post-11205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recently-sold","tag-91","tag-aperture","tag-arbus","tag-art","tag-diane_arbus","tag-featured-items","tag-firstedition","tag-first_printing","tag-john_szarkowski","tag-moma","tag-photography","tag-photography_exhibitions","tag-rare","tag-seminal","tag-true_first_edition","tag-very-rare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11205"}],"version-history":[{"count":26,"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11205\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15048,"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11205\/revisions\/15048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}