中文简介：

Diane Arbus以拍摄边缘人群而闻名，是美国战后摄影界的关键人物。不可否认的是，Arbus的黑白照片捕捉到了独特的目光。这些照片引起的同情、谴责甚至愤怒，在当时的美国社会交织着，引起众人议论纷纭，而伴随声誉而来的，还有骂声。评论家和作家将她的作品描述为“阴险”和“骇人听闻”，也有“启迪人心”、“真诚”和“同情”。Arbus去世后，艺术批评和文化变迁塑造了她作品中的语言。

本书分为11个部分，重点介绍了Arbus一生中的主要展览和重大事件，以及她的实践和主题，其中有70篇文章和论文的传真，追溯了关于Diane Arbus的论述，将她巨大成功的全部作品置于背景下讨论。本书还提供了超过600个条目的注释书目和全面的展览历史，对于摄影师、研究人员、艺术史学家和艺术评论家，以及艺术批评的学生和感兴趣的读者来说，都是一个重要资源。

英文简介：

Known for her evocative portraits, Diane Arbus is a pivotal figure in American postwar photography. Undeniably striking, Arbus's black-and-white photographs capture a unique gaze. Criticized as well as lauded for her photographs of people deemed “outsiders,” Arbus continues to attract a diversity of opinions surrounding her subjects and practice. Critics and writers have described her work as “sinister” and “appalling” as well as “revelatory,” “sincere,” and “compassionate.” In the absence of Arbus's own voice, art criticism and cultural shifts have shaped the language attributed to her work.

Organized in eleven sections that focus on major exhibitions and significant events in Arbus's life, as well as on her practice and her subjects, the seventy facsimiles of articles and essays––an archive by all accounts––trace the discourse on Diane Arbus, contextualizing her hugely successful oeuvre. Also with an annotated bibliography of more than six hundred entries and a comprehensive exhibition history, Documents serves as an important resource for photographers, researchers, art historians, and art critics, in addition to students of art criticism and the interested reader alike.