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The Inner Life of Diane Arbus
Bloomsbury Publishing USA
September 2011
On Sale: August 30, 2011
256 pages
ISBN: 1608195198
EAN: 9781608195190
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction Biography
Diane Arbus was one of the most brilliant and revered
photographers in the history of American art. Her portraits,
in stark black and white, seemed to reveal the psychological
truths of their subjects. But after she committed suicide in
1971, at the age of forty-eight, the presumed chaos and
darkness of her own inner life became, for many viewers,
inextricable from her work. In the spirit of Janet Malcolm's classic examination of
Sylvia Plath, The Silent Woman, William Todd Schultz's An
Emergency in Slow Motion reveals the creative and personal
struggles of Diane Arbus. Schultz veers from traditional
biography to interpret Arbus's life through the prism of
four central mysteries: her outcast affinity, her sexuality,
the secrets she kept and shared, and her suicide. He seeks
not to diagnose Arbus, but to discern some of the private
motives behind her public works and acts. In this approach,
Schultz not only goes deeper into Arbus's life than any
previous writer, but provides a template with which to think
about the creative life in general. Schultz's careful analysis is informed, in part, by the
recent release of some of Arbus's writing and work by her
estate, as well as by interviews with Arbus's
psychotherapist. An Emergency in Slow Motion combines new
revelations and breathtaking insights into a must-read
psychobiography about a monumental artist-the first new look
at Arbus in twenty-five years.
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