DIANE ARBUS: An Aperture Monograph

(New York): Aperture, 1972. First printing. Very good plus in very good plus jacket.. First edition of this famous posthumous monograph, with introductory text edited from tape recordings, interviews, and writings of Diana Arbus. The first issue, with the suppressed "Two Girls in Identical Raincoats, Central Park, N.Y.C. 1969," of Arbus's iconic photobook. As Andrew Roth wrote of Arbus and this book, which made her reputation: "Arbus replaced photography's old model of smarmy humanism with a vision that was at once pitiless and engaged, tough and surprisingly tender." Iconic and indispensable. 11'' x 9''. Original photographic boards. In matching unclipped ($15.00) photographic jacket. 15, [1] pages followed by black-and-white plates. Small closed tear to front panel, small ship to rear panel. Mild rubbing, toning. Small crease rear flap. Book a touch shaken. Overall, clean.