Diane Arbus by Lubow, Arthur -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Dedication Epigraph Contents Photographs Discussed in the Text PART ONE: A DAUGHTER, A WIFE, AND A MOTHER

1. The Decisive Moment 2. Stage-Set French 3. Them Against the World 4. Mysterious, but Not Blurry 5. Enter Allan 6. A Friendly-Looking Beard 7. Weddings 8. Living, Breathing Photography 9. Floating Weightless and Brilliant 10. Doon Is Born 11. Mr. and Mrs. Inc. 12. A Mystical Friendship 13. A Long-Awaited Consummation 14. Central Park Prophecy

PART TWO: BREAKING AWAY

15. Out the Prison Door 16. Hermitage Seductions 17. A Spanish Impasse 18. Italian Street Photographer 19. Modish and Empty 20. Circus 21. Out of Fashion 22. Finding Her Spot 23. Raincoat in Central Park 24. A Tiny Woman with a Grand Manner 25. What She Learned 26. Notes of Unhappiness 27. Losing Herself

PART THREE: BECOMING A PHOTOGRAPHER

28. The Ground Was Shifting 29. Buy Amy’s Present, Go to the Morgue 30. A Mephistopheles, a Svengali, a Rasputin 31. A Manual of Facial Types 32. The Weeping Clown and Fearless Tightrope Walker 33. The Bizarre and the Chic at Bazaar 34. Freak Show 35. Punchy New Journalism 36. Silver Spoon 37. Forlorn and Angry Children 38. Self-Created Women 39. Tinseltown

PART FOUR: KNOWING PEOPLE IN AN ALMOST BIBLICAL SENSE

40. A Fantastically Honest Photographer 41. Is the Jewish Couple Happy? 42. And Then You’re a Nudist 43. It’s Not Like You’re Acting 44. To Know People, Almost in a Biblical Sense 45. An Element of Torture 46. People on Plinths 47. Teaching Younger People 48. This Is the Whole Secret 49. Mysteries of Sex 50. I Think We Should Tell You, We’re Men 51. Nancy and Pati in Middle Age 52. Each with a Tiny Difference

PART FIVE: THE CRYSTAL-CLEAR VISION OF A POET

53. Desperate to Be Famous 54. Peace and Love 55. An English Connection 56. The Heart of the Maelstrom 57. Fantasy Made Actual 58. A Family on Their Lawn in Westchester 59. A Frightful Zombie 60. An Ideal Woman 61. A Political Year 62. Flatland 63. Swinging London

Photographic Insert PART SIX: HAPPY EVEN THOUGH THEY DON’T HAVE ANYTHING

64. Asylum 65. Art and Money 66. Fantastic and Real 67. A Dowsing Rod for Anguish 68. Wild Dynamics 69. An Urban Palace 70. A Modern-Day Ingres 71. The Mexican Dwarf and the Jewish Giant

PART SEVEN: HEARTBREAKING AND DIZZYING

72. Almost Like Ice 73. Storms 74. It’s All Chemical 75. Old Photographs, New Camera 76. Blood 77. Aging 78. Song and Dance 79. “Love” 80. A Woman Passing 81. You Can’t Come In 82. Loose Ends 83. Like Hamlet and Medea 84. Runes 85. Things That Nobody Would See

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