{"product_id":"diane-arbus-a-box-of-ten-photographs","title":"Diane Arbus: A box of ten photographs","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn May 1971, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eArtforum\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, 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, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eA box of ten photographs\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e. 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 \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eHarper’s Bazaar\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e. 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, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eA woman with her baby monkey, N.J.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, 1971.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcquired 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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(179, 179, 179);\"\u003eAperture\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(179, 179, 179);\"\u003eHardcover, 110 pages\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(179, 179, 179);\"\u003eISBN 9781597114394\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Aperture","offers":[{"title":"Default","offer_id":42761539944683,"sku":"9781597114394","price":100.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0508\/1061\/files\/61nJhqxxigL._SL1500.jpg?v=1772661046","url":"https:\/\/store.hammer.ucla.edu\/products\/diane-arbus-a-box-of-ten-photographs","provider":"Hammer Museum Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}