Skip to content

Booksellers & Trade Customers: Sign up for online bulk buying at trade.atlanticbooks.com for wholesale discounts

Booksellers: Create Account on our B2B Portal for wholesale discounts

Diane Arbus: A Box of Ten Photographs

by Diane Arbus , John P. Jacob
Save 33% Save 33%
Current price ₹6,160.00
Original price ₹9,200.00
Original price ₹9,200.00
Original price ₹9,200.00
(-33%)
₹6,160.00
Current price ₹6,160.00

Imported Edition - Ships in 18-21 Days

Free Shipping in India on orders above Rs. 500

Request Bulk Quantity Quote
+91
Book cover type: Hardcover
  • ISBN13: 9781597114394
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Aperture
  • Publisher Imprint: Aperture
  • Publication Date:
  • Pages: 110
  • Original Price: USD 100.0
  • Language: English
  • Edition: SLP
  • Item Weight: 1429 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Individual Photographers / Essays

In May 1971, Artforum, bastion of late modernism, featured the work of a photographer for the very first time. On its cover and in a six-page spread, it published selections from Diane Arbus's portfolio, A box of ten photographs. In the words of the magazine's editor and photography skeptic, Philip Leider, "The portfolio changed everything . . . one could no longer deny [photography's] status as art." At the time of Arbus's death, two months later, only four of the intended edition of fifty had been sold. Two had been purchased from Arbus by Richard Avedon (the first for himself, the second as a gift for his friend Mike Nichols); another was purchased by Jasper Johns; and a fourth by Bea Feitler, art director at Harper's Bazaar. Arbus signed the prints in all four sets; each print was accompanied by an interleaving vellum slip-sheet inscribed with an extended caption. For Feitler, Arbus added an eleventh photograph, A woman with her baby monkey, N.J., 1971.

Acquired by the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC, in 1986--and the only one of the four completed and sold by Arbus that is publicly held--that portfolio was the subject of an exhibition on view in 2018. This exceptional book replicates the nature of Diane Arbus's original and now legendary object. Smithsonian curator John P. Jacob, who has unearthed a trove of new information in preparing the book and exhibition, weaves a fascinating tale of the creation, production, and continuing repercussions of this seminal work.

Published by Aperture in association with the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC.

Arbus, Diane: - Diane Arbus (1923-1971) revolutionized the terms of the art she practiced. Five volumes of her work have been published posthumously and have remained continuously in print: Diane Arbus: An Aperture Monograph (1972), Diane Arbus: Magazine Work (1984), Untitled: Diane Arbus (1995), Diane Arbus: A Chronology (2011), and Diane Arbus Revelations (Random House, 2003).


Jacob, John P.: - John P. Jacob is the Smithsonian American Art Museum's McEvoy Family Curator for Photography; he joined the curatorial staff in 2015. Prior to that, Jacob was vice president and director of the Inge Morath Foundation and program director at the Magnum Foundation's Legacy Program. John P. Jacob lives in Washington, D.C.


Trusted for over 48 years

Family Owned Company

Secure Payment

All Major Credit Cards/Debit Cards/UPI & More Accepted

New & Authentic Products

India's Largest Distributor

Need Support?

Whatsapp Us