This series considers artists and their work against the background of the social, political and historical world in which they worked, examining issues of race, class, gender and  psychology. It covers the Western canon, and also extends to popular imagery and non-Western traditions. This title looks at photography and the body.

Photography and the Body (Everyman Art Library)

Pultz, John

Orion Publishing Co

<p>Diane Arbus (1923-1971) is renowned for her provocative and unsettling portraits of modern Americans. This book presents a significant body of previously unpublished pictures by Arbus and proposes a radically new way to understand her goals, strategies, and overall work. Diane Arbus: Family Albums examines unknown contact sheets from several of Arbus's portrait sessions, including more than three hundred photographs she took of a New York family one weekend in 1969. Anthony W. Lee and John Pultz put to the test Arbus's claim that she was developing a "family album." They present other images Arbus shot for Esquire magazine (including pictures of the families of Ricky Nelson, Jayne Mansfield, and Ogden Reid) and discuss her interest in photographic groupings of both traditional and alternative families. Challenging common interpretations of Arbus, the authors reveal a photographer far more savvy with the camera, more aware of photography as an artistic and commercial practice, and more sensitive to the social and cultural tensions of the 1960s than has been acknowledged before.</p>

Diane Arbus: Family Albums

Arts & Photography

Lee, Anthony W.

Photography & Video

Yale University Press

<p>Pultz explores various issues in photography by focusing on one of its greatest subjects--the human body. He traces images of the body--male and female, child and adult, nude and clothed--from the tintypes of anonymous itinerant photographers to the great classic works of the masters of the medium to the artistic experiments of today. 125 illustrations, 32 in color.</p>

The Body and the Lens: Photography 1839 to the Present (Perspectives)

Harry N.Abrams, Inc.

Corps photographie (Le)

History & Criticism

Flammarion

La fotografía y el cuerpo (Arte En Contexto) (Spanish Edition)

Ediciones Akal

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