Arthur Lubow has been a contributing writer at The New York Times Magazine, a staff writer at The New Yorker, and a contributing editor at Vanity Fair. He received a Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman fellowship, a National Endowment for the Humanities fellowship, and a James Beard Award, and is a fellow of the New York Institute for the Humanities.
"The book reads more like a novel-salacious, mysterious . . . and
harrowing." - New York Times Book Review
"Epic, sympathetic, but unsparing." - New York magazine
"Enormously satisfying. . . This compelling book shows an Arbus
that is as mysterious as her best photographs. Like them, she tells
us something about ourselves that is vital, but that we may not
always want to see." - Nickolas Butler, internationally bestselling
author of Shotgun Lovesongs and The Hearts of Men
"With vivid details and acute insights, Arthur Lubow, an
exceptionally talented writer, has brought to life a unique and
enduring artist. Through her camera, Diane Arbus gave us an
enlarged view of human nature. This book shows who she was and how
she did it." - Gay Talese
"Lubow turned a routine magazine assignment for the New York Times
into the defining biography of photographer Diane Arbus . . . Lubow
provides not only a comprehensive assessment of her groundbreaking
work but, perhaps more significantly, a revealing documentary of
Arbus's often-tortured life." - Publishers Weekly (starred
review)
"A stellar new biography. . . . ruthlessly researched and
beautifully written." - Philadelphia Inquirer
"Big, sharply focused, disturbingly intimate...Lubow chronicles
Arbus's rise and fall with a novelistic intensity that plumbs the
decisive moments of a driven, unsettled soul...A major work." - USA
Today
"Arthur Lubow's compelling new biography about the revolutionary
photographer Diane Arbus brilliantly demonstrates how the
emotionally fragile state of an artist can be channeled into
something wondrous. . . . Superbly crafted. . . . Lubow is a
talented and sensitive writer." - The Washington Post
"The author produces a thorough, sympathetic portrait of a
complicated woman who, from childhood on, stood out as 'totally
original.' . . . Lubow sharply captures Arbus' restlessness, pain,
and artistic vision." - Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
"In a fast-moving narrative style that reads like an eyewitness
account, Lubow gets inside both the person and the persona. This
book both analyzes and contributes to the notoriety and fascination
with one of the most complicated figures in the history of
photography." - Jeff Wall
"Arbus...took the time to establish a genuine bond with her
subjects so that her photographs, while bold and unsparing, were
also deeply sympathetic. Arthur Lubow has approached Arbus in much
the same spirit, and the result is a perceptive, engaging, and
profoundly moving portrait." - John Berendt
"Lubow's portrait is the most sharply focused, encompassing, and
incisive to date." - Booklist
"Lubow is entering a crowded arena, for the Arbus industry is
hardly a place of repose. Yet the author fights for his spot, and
earns it. His research is unflagging and his timing is good." - The
New Yorker
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