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An Emergency In Slow Motion: The Inner Life Of Diane Arbus (2011)

by William Todd Schultz(Favorite Author)

3.41 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

1608195198 (ISBN13: 9781608195190)

languge

English

genre

Memoir & Autobiography

publisher

Bloomsbury USA

review 1: I enjoyed the book because I am a fan of Diane Arbus, however those unfamiliar with her work or with Bosworth's biography on Diane Arbus will be absolutely bored. This book is a psychiatric point of view of Diane Arbus's life and work and how those two string together. The books main focus is on Arbus's suicide and her lifestyle leading up to her suicide. The one aspect of the book that I found cringe worthy is the last chapter. The last chapter focused on Sylvia Plath and to me it seemed to force their connection as different artist with the same revelations before their suicides and how their work was the best work for each individual before their death. I just didn't see where Sylvia Plath fit in when she wasn't mentioned at all through out the book until the last cha... morepter.
review 2: Very depressing...comparing Arbus to Sylvia Plath. I think Arbus was a tortured genius, whose demons were made worse by medication and bad relationships. This book was full of a lot of psychobabble, not just a telling of her life. I also found the lack of photographs annoying; when the author described one, I had to go online to look it up to see exactly what he was describing. That was quite annoying. If Arbus had lived in a different era, perhaps her suicide could have been prevented by better therapy and meds. But then -- would she have had the impact on the photographic world that she did? less

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