In Conversation: Sylvia Plachy, Leo Rubinfien, and Lynne Tillman on Diane Arbus

David Zwirner, 537 West 20th Street, New York, NY 10011

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Join Aperture and David Zwirner Books for a conversation with Sylvia Plachy, Leo Rubinfien, and Lynne Tillman, moderated by Lesley A. Martin, in celebration of the publications Diane Arbus Documents (Jeffrey Fraenkel/David Zwirner Books, 2022) and Diane Arbus Revelations (Aperture, 2022) on the experience of Arbus’s work, fifty years on from the initial publication of Diane Arbus: An Aperture Monograph and her cataclysmic solo exhibition at MoMA.

This event is presented in partnership with David Zwirner Books.

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Sylvia Plachy, born in Budapest, lives in New York. She has published several books of her photographs, including Unguided Tour (1990) and Self Portrait with Cows Going Home (2005). In 2010, Plachy was given the Dr. Erich Salomon award by the German Society for Photography for lifetime achievement in photojournalism.

Leo Rubinfien was part of the circle of younger photographers associated with Garry Winogrand in the 1970s and early 1980s. He has exhibited widely and is the author of several books of photographs, including A Map of the East (1992) and Wounded Cities (2008). He was also curator of retrospective shows of the work of Shomei Tomatsu and of Winogrand, and author of Shomei Tomatsu: Skin of the Nation (2004) and Garry Winogrand (2013).

Lynne Tillman is a novelist, short story writer, and cultural critic. Tillman is the author of six novels, six short-story collections, two collections of essays, and two other nonfiction books. Her book-length autobiographical essay MOTHERCARE was published this past August. She is professor/writer in residence at the University at Albany.

Lesley A. Martin is creative director of Aperture and founding publisher of The PhotoBook Review. In 2012, she received the Royal Photographic Society award for outstanding achievement in Photographic Publishing in 2020. She is currently a visiting critic at the Yale University Graduate School of Art.

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Image: Collaged archival materials featured in Diane Arbus Documents, co-published by David Zwirner Books and Fraenkel Gallery, 2022.