Diane Arbus: Intimate Portraits
4 Extra Debut. Alvin Hall considers photographer Diane Arbus’s unique and controversial legacy. How has her vision transformed photography? From 2023.
Photographer Diane Arbus was born in 1923 and committed suicide in 1971, but her photographs retain their extraordinary and unsettling power.
Alvin Hall sets out to ask why?
After Arbus’ death and the 1972 New York MoMA exhibition which launched her posthumous fame, attention has often focused on her death and the more lurid details of her biography.
Alvin and a cast of artists, photographers, writers and curators turn instead to consider her art.
In a series of encounters recorded on location in Arbus’ home city of New York, and through the photographer's own words, they set out to evoke the atmosphere and power of her photographs, their creation and the influence they’ve had over generations of photographers who have wrestled with how to make portraits after Arbus.
Featuring responses to Arbus’ work from photographers Tina Barney, Ming Smith, Bill Jacobson and Deana Lawson.
Alvin also speaks to:
* Senior Curator in the Department of Photography at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Roxana Marcoci
* Journalist and biographer, Arthur Lubow;
* Elisabeth Sussman
* Curator of Photography at the Whitney Museum of American Art, Sondra Gilman
* Curator, writer and photography critic, Vince Aletti
Diane Arbus' readings are edited selections from the 1972 film ‘Going Where I've Never Been: The Photography of Diane Arbus’, voiced by Mariclare Costello.
Written and presented by Alvin Hall.
Producer: Michael Umney
A Just Radio production for 91Èȱ¬ Radio 4, first broadcast in 2023.
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