Volume 51, Number 1 · January 15, 2004

Good Pictures

By Janet Malcolm
Diane Arbus Revelations
Catalog of the exhibition by Sandra S. Phillips, Elisabeth Sussman, Doon Arbus, Neil Selkirk, and Jeff L. Rosenheim

an exhibition at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, October 25, 2003–February 8, 2004.
Random House, 351 pp., $100.00

Diane Arbus: Family Albums
Catalog of the exhibition by Anthony W. Lee and John Pultz

an exhibition at the Mount Holyoke College Museum of Art, South Hadley, Massachusetts, December 2–December 17, 2003; and the Grey Art Gallery, New York University, New York City, January 13–March 27, 2004
Yale University Press/Mount Holyoke College Museum of Art/University of Kansas Spencer Museum of Art, 168 pp., $35.00 (paper)

On January 7, 1971, Diane Arbus conducted interviews with prospective students of a photography master class she would teach that winter—the last winter of her life—and wrote about the interviewees thus:



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