{"product_id":"diane-arbus-a-box-of-ten-photographs","title":"Diane Arbus: A Box of Ten Photographs","description":"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  announced the publication of a portfolio,  A box of ten photographs , by Diane Arbus.  In the words of the magazine’s editor, 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 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Acquired by the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C., in  1986—and the only one of the four completed and sold by Arbus that is publicly  held—that portfolio is the subject of an exhibition on view at the museum from  April through September 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Aperture","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":32118217605203,"sku":"","price":97.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781597114394.jpg?v=1765289716","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/diane-arbus-a-box-of-ten-photographs","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}