HUBERT’S FREAKS: THE RARE-BOOK DEALER, THE TIMES SQUARE TALKER, AND THE LOST PHOTOS OF DIANE ARBUS
By Gregory Gibson
Harcourt, 274 pages, $24
Gregory Gibson’s strange and excellent new book, Hubert’s Freaks, takes its title from the Times Square freak show where photographer Diane Arbus dredged up subjects in the 1950s. The Read More
Diane Arbus’ estate has given the photographer’s intimate, complete archives to the Met as a gift, along with hundreds of early and unique photographs; negatives and contract prints of 7,500 rolls of film; and hundreds of glassine print sleeves that she personally annotated before her death by suicide in 1971, according to the New Read More
Pedro Almodóvar’s Volver, from his screenplay (in Spanish, with English subtitles), turns out to be by far the most disciplined narrative film, structurally and stylistically, of the 16 or so that he’s made over the past quarter of a century. Mr. Almodóvar’s ingrained partiality to his women characters attains almost heroic proportions here, as he Read More
There are many things I don’t understand about the movie business, but one of the most troubling is the fast-lane rush to buy up great books in order to change, trash, deconstruct and eviscerate them of everything that made them great in the first place. Even in an industry famous for castrating literature and rendering Read More
Pedro Almodóvar’s Volver, from his screenplay (in Spanish, with English subtitles), turns out to be by far the most disciplined narrative film, structurally and stylistically, of the 16 or so that he’s made over the past quarter of a century. Mr. Almodóvar’s ingrained partiality to his women characters attains almost heroic proportions here, as he Read More
The photographer Diane Arbus (1923-1971), on the evidence of Revelations, a retrospective at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, was incapable of taking a bad picture. Each and every photograph on display is, in its own way, riveting and, for that matter, definitive.
Arbus’ photos of drag queens, Jewish giants, James Brown and acne-scarred patriots are Read More
