An Emergency in Slow Motion : The Inner Life of Diane Arbus (Hardcover)

from scottapeshot

Schultz is a dogged analyst, fixated on certain facets of Arbus' life and personality, in order to explain her unique artistic choices and her unfortunate demise. However, he lacks the larger vision necessary to put this person into a realistic, vital context. He looks at Arbus through the wrong ...

from tixylix

I was looking forward to reading this book because I am intrigued by Arbus' photography and wanted a more truthful depiction than the film Fur provided. Unfortunately, I don't really feel that I got that. Schultz is open about the fact that even after several years of researching her work and try...

from BALE

William Todd Schultz's psycho-biography, "An Emergency in Slow Motion, The Inner Life of Diane Arbus", is a psychological interpretation of Diane Arbus' interior life and how it influenced her photographic work. Conversely, Schultz also looked at how Arbus' work - her subject matter - may have af...

from VikkiLaw

Does anyone else horrified that Arbus's therapist was willing to share her insight and session analyses with the author? I thought that client-patient info was privileged, even after death. I'd never heard the term psychobiography before and wasn't sure what to expect. I think that this book is ...