DIANE ARBUS: AN APERTURE MONOGRAPH

FIRST EDITION HARDCOVER

Third Printing 

Diane Arbus. An Aperture Monograph. Designed and edited by Doon Arbus and Marvin Israel. Aperture, New York, 1972. Quarto. First edition. Third printing. Hardcover. With the illustrated dust jacket. Numerous black and white reproductions.

A third printing of the definitive Arbus monograph published in 1972, a year after Diane Arbus's suicide and in conjunction with a retrospective show at the Museum of Modern Art. The museum's photo curator, John Szarkowski, was an early Arbus supporter... but Arbus's place in the public consciousness was sealed largely by Aperture's book, one of the rare books that has been continually in print. Marvin Israel's spare, almost recessive book lay out, with pictures on the right hand page and discreet captions on the left, hasn't lost its punch any more than Arbus's images have lost their power to provoke and disturb... Arbus replaced photography's old model of smarmy humanism with a vision that was once pitiless and engaged, tough and surprisingly tender".--Vince Aletti in Roth, et. al., The Book of 101 Books.

Very Good Plus in a very good dust jacket. Textured boards have minimal wear. Clean and bright. Handled with the greatest of care. Like new. Internally, unmarked. Nice tight binding. Like new. Hinges sound. Unusually bright and very clean. DJ clean and very bright with a couple of minuscule tears to the edges. One has a small taped repair. Tanning to the DJ flaps. Not price clipped. The best copy seen to date.

An incredible book. Scarce hardcover copy third printing.