Doon Arbus

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Doon Arbus
Born (1945-04-03) April 3, 1945 (age 79)
New York City, U.S.
Occupation(s)Writer, journalist
Years active1965–present
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Doon Arbus (born April 3, 1945) is an American writer and journalist. Her debut novel is The Caretaker (New Directions, 2020). [1] [2] Her play, Third Floor, Second Door on the Right, was produced at the Cherry Lane Theatre by the 2003 New York International Fringe Festival. [3] [4]

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Doon Arbus is the elder daughter of actor Allan Arbus and photographer Diane Arbus. She was 26 when her mother committed suicide, [5] at which time she became responsible for the management of her mother's estate. [6] She has authored or contributed to five books on Diane Arbus's work, including An Aperture Monograph (Aperture, 1972) [7] and Revelations (Random House, 2003). [8] She has also organized numerous photographic exhibitions in collaboration with The Metropolitan Museum of Art, [9] the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, [10] [11] and the Jeu de Paume, [12] among other institutions.

As a freelance journalist in the mid-1960s, alongside other writers like Tom Wolfe, Jimmy Breslin, and Robert Benton, she contributed to the New York Herald Tribune's Sunday supplement, New York , one of the earliest proponents of New Journalism. Her articles also appeared in Rolling Stone , The Nation , and Cheetah . Her 1966 New York Herald article "James Brown Is Out of Sight" [13] was among the first profiles of the R&B legend and is included in The James Brown Reader (Plume, 2008). [14] [15] Arbus was a longtime collaborator of Richard Avedon, with whom she coauthored the books Alice in Wonderland: The Forming of a Company, the Making of a Play [16] (E. P. Dutton, 1973) and Avedon: The Sixties (Random House, 1999). [17] [18] [19] [20]

Published work

Selected articles and criticism

"James Brown Is Out of Sight", New York/The Sunday Herald Tribune Magazine, 1966 [13]
"The Man in the Paper Suit: James Rosenquist", New York/The Sunday World Journal Tribune Magazine, (1966) [21]
"In Person: The Mothers of Invention", Cheetah , 1967 [22]
"The Autobiography of Michael J. Pollard", Cheetah, 1968 [23] [24]
"Dustin Hoffman: I'm Sorry I Couldn't Be Here Tonight", Cheetah, 1968 [25] [26]
"How Fat Alice Lost 12 Stone (Yes 12 Stone—the Weight of An Average Man!) and Found Happiness, God, and the Chance of a Husband", The London Sunday Times Magazine, 1969 [27]
"Diane Arbus Photographer", Ms. Magazine, 1972 [28]
"Walker Evans: Allusions to a Presence", The Nation, 1978 [29]
"The Collector: Photographer Peter Beard's Wild Life and Times", Rolling Stone, 1978 [30]

Books

Diane Arbus: An Aperture Monograph (editor and co-designer). New York: Aperture, 1972 [7]
Alice in Wonderland: The Forming of a Company, the Making of a Play (coauthor). New York: E. P. Dutton, 1973 [16]
Magazine Work (editor). New York: Aperture, 1984 [27]
Untitled: Diane Arbus (editor, contributor, and co-designer). New York: Aperture, 1995 [31]
Avedon: The Sixties (coauthor). New York: Random House, 1999 [17] [18] [19] [20]
Diane Arbus Revelations (author), New York: Random House, 2003 [8]
Diane Arbus: A Chronology, 1923–1971 (author). New York: Aperture, 2011 [32]
The Caretaker: A Novel (author). New York: New Directions, 2020 [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 Arbus, Doon (2020). The Caretaker. New York: New Directions. p. 144. ISBN   978-08112294-9-4 . Retrieved April 18, 2020.
  2. ↑ "The Caretaker book official website". The Caretaker. Retrieved December 4, 2020.
  3. ↑ Tolkoff, Esther (September 17, 2003). "Third Floor, Second Door on the Right". Backstage. Retrieved April 18, 2020.
  4. ↑ Thurman, Judith (October 6, 2003). "Exposure Time". The New Yorker . Retrieved April 18, 2020.
  5. ↑ Lubow, Arthur (September 14, 2003). "Arbus Reconsidered". The New York Times.
  6. ↑ Elisabeth Sussman; Doon Arbus (2011). Diane Arbus: A Chronology. New York: Aperture Foundation. p. 147. ISBN   978-1-59711-179-9. Archived from the original on May 17, 2012. Retrieved April 14, 2012.
  7. 1 2 Arbus, Diane; Arbus, Doon (1972). Diane Arbus: An Aperture Monograph (40th Anniversary ed.). New York: Aperture. p. 184. ISBN   978-1-59711-174-4. Archived from the original on September 18, 2020. Retrieved April 18, 2020.
  8. 1 2 Arbus, Diane; Arbus, Doon; Sussman, Elisabeth (2003). Diane Arbus Revelations. New York: Random House. p. 352. ISBN   978-0-3755062-0-8 . Retrieved April 18, 2020.
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  12. ↑ Staff. "Diane Arbus Fotomuseum Winterthur". jeudepaume.org. Jeu de Paume. Retrieved April 18, 2020.
  13. 1 2 Fraden, Angel E. (November 28, 2014). "Editorial: Out of Sight, Out of Mind—How America Failed James Brown". Indie Current. Archived from the original on January 9, 2015. Retrieved April 18, 2020.
  14. ↑ George, Nelson; Leeds, Alan (2008). The James Brown Reader. New York: Plume. p. 368. ISBN   978-0-4522894-6-8 . Retrieved April 18, 2020.
  15. ↑ Smith, RJ (May 11, 2008). "'The James Brown Reader,' edited by Nelson George and Alan Leeds". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved April 18, 2020.
  16. 1 2 Avedon, Richard; Arbus, Doon (1973). Alice in Wonderland: The Forming of a Company, The Making of a Play. New York: E. P. Dutton. p. 176. ISBN   978-0-8830650-0-6 . Retrieved April 18, 2020.
  17. 1 2 Avedon, Richard; Arbus, Doon (1999). The Sixties. New York: Random House. p. 240. ISBN   978-0-6794092-3-6.
  18. 1 2 Avedon Foundation. "The Sixties 1999 Interviews by Doon Arbus". www.avedonfoundation.org. Retrieved December 7, 2020.
  19. 1 2 Middleton, David. "January Magazine: The Best of Times, the Worst of Times". Collections Canada. Retrieved December 7, 2020.
  20. 1 2 Aletti, Vince. "The Village Voice: Fully Booked". vvstaging.villagevoice.com. The Village Voice. Retrieved December 7, 2020.
  21. ↑ Arbus, Doon (November 6, 1966). "The Man in the Paper Suit". New York/The World Journal Tribune Magazine. Retrieved April 18, 2020.
  22. ↑ Arbus, Doon (October 1967). "In-Person: The Mothers of Invention". afka.net. Retrieved April 18, 2020.
  23. ↑ Staff. "Michael Pollard (Alternate with cigarette), NYC". philiips.com. Phillips. Retrieved April 18, 2020.
  24. ↑ Worthopedia, Worthpoint. "Cheetah Magazine". Worthpoint.com. Retrieved December 7, 2020.
  25. ↑ Arbus, Doon (May 1968). "Dustin Hoffman: I'm Sorry I Couldn't Be Here Tonight". Vol. 8. Cheetah Magazine. Retrieved December 4, 2020.
  26. ↑ Worthpedia, Worthpoint. "Cheetah Magazine". Worthpoint. Retrieved December 7, 2020.
  27. 1 2 Arbus, Diane; Arbus, Doon (1984). Magazine Work. New York: Aperture. p. 176. ISBN   978-0-89381-233-1. Archived from the original on September 21, 2020. Retrieved April 18, 2020.
  28. ↑ Arbus, Diane; Jacob, John P. (2018). Diane Arbus: A box of ten photographs. Washington, D.C. & New York: Smithsonian American Art Museum & Aperture. p. 110. ISBN   978-1-59711-439-4 . Retrieved April 18, 2020.
  29. ↑ Lowenthal, David (1978). The Past Is a Foreign Country. London: Cambridge University Press. p. 676. ISBN   978-0-5216168-5-0 . Retrieved April 18, 2020.
  30. ↑ Staff. "Peter Beard Selected Articles". artnet.com. ArtNet. Retrieved April 18, 2020.
  31. ↑ Arbus, Diane; Arbus, Doon (1995). Untitled. Aperture. p. 112. ISBN   978-1-59711-190-4 . Retrieved April 18, 2020.
  32. ↑ Arbus, Doon; Sussman, Elisabeth (2011). Diane Arbus: A Chronology. New York: Aperture. p. 192. ISBN   978-1-59711-179-9 . Retrieved April 18, 2020.
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