Millerton, New York, An Aperture Monograph, 1972
Inscribed by one of Arbus's subjects at their page. Inscribed on the page featuring the photograph 'Transvestite at a drag ball, N.Y.C. 1970 ':' Thanks for your warmness / & friendship / Le Ray R. [?] / [Maine?] x / 3/13/76'. The following page with the photograph 'Two girls in identical raincoats, Central Park, N.Y.C. 1969' which was removed from some subsequent printings.
In February 1971, Diane Arbus wrote to John Szarkowski asking him to serve as a reference for the Ingram Merrill Foundation and enclosed her proposal for a new project called The Quiet Minorities: 'The sign for a minority is the Difference. Those of birth, accident, choice, belief, predilection, inertia. (Some are partial and temporary, others irrevocable...) Every difference is a Likeness too... Not to ignore them, not to lump them all together, but to watch them, to take notice, to pay attention.'
Four months later, Arbus took her own life at the age of 48. In the following months, plans were made for the present book, edited by her friend Marvin Israel with her eldest daughter Doon, to accompany an exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, New York (7 November 1972–21 January 1973), curated by John Szarkowski.
First edition, inscribed by one of Arbus's subjects at their page with their photograph; 4to (278 x 232 mm, 11 x 9¼ in); black-and-white photographs in offset printed by Rapoport Printing Corporation, text edited from tape recordings of a series of classes Arbus gave in 1971 as well as from interviews and her writings, edges toned, occasional marks; plain endpapers, white photo-illustrated paper-covered boards printed in black, light toning, light wear to extremities, top corner tapped, edges toned, white photo-illustrated dust-jacket printed in black, light toning, small mark at foot, light creasing to flaps, short tear to head of lower spine-fold strengthened internally, a close to near-fine copy; [viii], 15, [161]pp.
Regards à travers Le Livre 149; The Book of 101 Books pp214-5; The Photobook: A History I, pp258-9; The Open Book pp284-5; Auer Collection p546; What They Saw: Historical Photobooks by Women pp198-9.
In February 1971, Diane Arbus wrote to John Szarkowski asking him to serve as a reference for the Ingram Merrill Foundation and enclosed her proposal for a new project called The Quiet Minorities: 'The sign for a minority is the Difference. Those of birth, accident, choice, belief, predilection, inertia. (Some are partial and temporary, others irrevocable...) Every difference is a Likeness too... Not to ignore them, not to lump them all together, but to watch them, to take notice, to pay attention.'
Four months later, Arbus took her own life at the age of 48. In the following months, plans were made for the present book, edited by her friend Marvin Israel with her eldest daughter Doon, to accompany an exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, New York (7 November 1972–21 January 1973), curated by John Szarkowski.
First edition, inscribed by one of Arbus's subjects at their page with their photograph; 4to (278 x 232 mm, 11 x 9¼ in); black-and-white photographs in offset printed by Rapoport Printing Corporation, text edited from tape recordings of a series of classes Arbus gave in 1971 as well as from interviews and her writings, edges toned, occasional marks; plain endpapers, white photo-illustrated paper-covered boards printed in black, light toning, light wear to extremities, top corner tapped, edges toned, white photo-illustrated dust-jacket printed in black, light toning, small mark at foot, light creasing to flaps, short tear to head of lower spine-fold strengthened internally, a close to near-fine copy; [viii], 15, [161]pp.
Regards à travers Le Livre 149; The Book of 101 Books pp214-5; The Photobook: A History I, pp258-9; The Open Book pp284-5; Auer Collection p546; What They Saw: Historical Photobooks by Women pp198-9.
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