Report on Diane Arbus show
Connie Clark
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Tue Jul 6 10:20:06 2004
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We did 2 hour view of Arbus pictures on Sunday. Cost us $7.00 each to get in, also saw the Murano blown-glass vase show also on exhibit in the same building.
This has to be the complete Arbus works available to be viewed. Mike mentioned some sex related photos, and I saw several, but don't know if they were ever exhibited before. The marquee claims that there are a number of pictures in the show previously unseen by the public. Notable were several contact sheets, and an accidental double exposure of her floating against NYC street. The more extreme sex pictures were of a dominatrix and her client, and several nude couples in bed. There were actually a lot of nude, partially nude, 'over-exposed' humans in the Arbus photos. She liked to take pictures of drag queens. The show included her notebooks listing possible photograph subjects; notes about her magazine spreads, one called 'A Vertical History' (about NYC). There were personal letters to her daughters, and to friends about her marriage, work, and hospitalization with hepatitis. I think there were three of her cameras, the Nikon, and the Rolliflex and another Nikon on display,
as well as Books from her bookshelf arranaged around her letters and notes. I couldn't help but notice that many of the authors and titles were books that could be found in my bookshelf or in the shelves of many I knew during the sixties - same editions even (remember the Evergreen books we bought over at the book store on the drag called, gosh, can't remember the name, but it was south of the Co-Op, and it was small?.I digress. She had a copy of the book 'The Family of Man', which was a book of photographs I think we all tripped out on. There was a lot of personal bio in the exhibit, but I never caught what might have drove her to suicide in her 'forties'. The last photos of the show were those take in 70 of the retarded people.
Anyway, a quite enjoyable exhibit that brings one very close to her and her subjects (I didn't realize that the fifties and sixties were sooo long ago... I hadn't thought of the incredible 'bouffant' hairstyle in a while!) Great pictures of people during that time, particularly those in NYC.
The Aperture book about her was on display along with another one or two, and the show catalogue: Diane Arbus, Revelations. I looked through them, but couldn't tell the difference, but am sure that the catalogue has more pictures, as well as her notebooks duplicated and translated. It cost $50, PB, and is about an 1" thick, 9 x 12" or so. I'll be happy to get one and send it to you Wayne, if you are still interested. I looked on the MFAH (Museum of Fine Arts Houston) web site, and it is not on the list of books available on-line, but I'm sure it will be soon.
Connie
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<DIV>We did 2 hour view of Arbus pictures on Sunday. Cost us $7.00 each to get in, also saw the Murano blown-glass vase show also on exhibit in the same building.</DIV>
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<DIV>This has to be the complete Arbus works available to be viewed. Mike mentioned some sex related photos, and I saw several, but don't know if they were ever exhibited before. The marquee claims that there are a number of pictures in the show previously unseen by the public. Notable were several contact sheets, and an accidental double exposure of her floating against NYC street. The more extreme sex pictures were of a dominatrix and her client, and several nude couples in bed. There were actually a lot of nude, partially nude, 'over-exposed' humans in the Arbus photos. She liked to take pictures of drag queens. The show included her notebooks listing possible photograph subjects; notes about her magazine spreads, one called 'A Vertical History' (about NYC). There were personal letters to her daughters, and to friends about her marriage, work, and hospitalization with hepatitis. I think there were three of her cameras, the
Nikon, and the Rolliflex and another Nikon on display, as well as Books from her bookshelf arranaged around her letters and notes. I couldn't help but notice that many of the authors and titles were books that could be found in my bookshelf or in the shelves of many I knew during the sixties - same editions even (remember the Evergreen books we bought over at the book store on the drag called, gosh, can't remember the name, but it was south of the Co-Op, and it was small?.I digress. She had a copy of the book 'The Family of Man', which was a book of photographs I think we all tripped out on. There was a lot of personal bio in the exhibit, but I never caught what might have drove her to suicide in her 'forties'. The last photos of the show were those take in 70 of the retarded people.</DIV>
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<DIV>Anyway, a quite enjoyable exhibit that brings one very close to her and her subjects (I didn't realize that the fifties and sixties were sooo long ago... I hadn't thought of the incredible 'bouffant' hairstyle in a while!) Great pictures of people during that time, particularly those in NYC. </DIV>
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<DIV>The Aperture book about her was on display along with another one or two, and the show catalogue: Diane Arbus, Revelations. I looked through them, but couldn't tell the difference, but am sure that the catalogue has more pictures, as well as her notebooks duplicated and translated. It cost $50, PB, and is about an 1" thick, 9 x 12" or so. I'll be happy to get one and send it to you Wayne, if you are still interested. I looked on the MFAH (Museum of Fine Arts Houston) web site, and it is not on the list of books available on-line, but I'm sure it will be soon. </DIV>
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