An emergency in slow motion : the inner life of Diane Arbus
/ William Todd Schultz
- 1st U.S. ed.
- New York : Bloomsbury , 2011.
- 245 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 221-233) and index.
Essential mysteries -- The secret -- Fairy tales for grown-ups -- Shame erasing -- The black knot -- Sweeping back the ocean -- The hole in the ground where secrets live.
Schultz veers from traditional biography to interpret photographer Diane Arbus' 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.