Diana And Nikon - Essays On Photography

Diana & Nikon: Essays on Photography by Janet Malcolm. Originally comprised of eleven essays, this expanded edition of Diana & Nikon, Janet Malcolm's first book, presents five new essays that explore the final work of Diane Arbus, Sally Mann's family pictures, E. J. Bellocq's famous 1912 nudes, Andrew Bush's richly detailed interiors, and the relationship between painting and photography. Illustrated with 100 blackandwhite photographs, this is a sensitive and generous appraisal of where photography stands in relation to all the arts, and to its own past, by one of the leading writers of her generation. Malcolm offers a view of photography that is as complicated and as controversial as the medium itself. Her writings on such topics as Richard Avedon's portraits, Gary Winogrand's street photographs, and Harry Callahan's color work exhibit the elegant prose style and incisive commentary for which she is renowned. The text of the original editionnow a muchsoughtafter rarityis reprinted here in full, including essays on the works of the masters Alfred Stieglitz, Edward Steichen, and Edward Weston, as well as such contemporaries as Robert Frank, Irving Penn, and William Eggleston. Janet Malcolm has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since the 1960s. She is the author of the critically acclaimed books The Journalist and the Murderer, The Silent Woman: Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes, The Purloined Clinic: Selected Writings, and other titles. Born in Prague, Malcolm grew up in New York City, where she lives with her husband.