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DEDICATION For Jason EPIGRAPH A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know. —DIANE ARBUS CONTENTS Dedication Epigraph Photographs Discussed in the Text PART ONE: A DAUGHTER, A WIFE, AND A MOTHER 1 The Decisive Moment 2 Stage-Set French 3 Them Against the World 4 Mysterious, but Not Blurry 5 Enter Allan 6 A Friendly-Looking Beard 7 Weddings 8 Living, Breathing Photography 9 Floating Weightless and Brilliant 10 Doon Is Born 11 Mr. and Mrs. Inc. 12 A Mystical Friendship 13 A Long-Awaited Consummation 14 Central Park Prophecy PART TWO: BREAKING AWAY 15 Out the Prison Door 16 Hermitage Seductions 17 A Spanish Impasse 18 Italian Street Photographer 19 Modish and Empty 20 Circus 21 Out of Fashion 22 Finding Her Spot 23 Raincoat in Central Park 24 A Tiny Woman with a Grand Manner 25 What She Learned 26 Notes of Unhappiness 27 Losing Herself PART THREE: BECOMING A PHOTOGRAPHER 28 The Ground Was Shifting 29 Buy Amy’s Present, Go to the Morgue 30 A Mephistopheles, a Svengali, a Rasputin 31 A Manual of Facial Types 32 The Weeping Clown and Fearless Tightrope Walker 33 The Bizarre and the Chic at Bazaar 34 Freak Show 35 Punchy New Journalism 36 Silver Spoon 37 Forlorn and Angry Children 38 Self-Created Women 39 Tinseltown PART FOUR: KNOWING PEOPLE IN AN ALMOST BIBLICAL SENSE 40 A Fantastically Honest Photographer 41 Is the Jewish Couple Happy? 42 And Then You’re a Nudist 43 It’s Not Like You’re Acting 44 To Know People, Almost in a Biblical Sense 45 An Element of Torture 46 People on Plinths 47 Teaching Younger People 48 This Is the Whole Secret 49 Mysteries of Sex 50 I Think We Should Tell You, We’re Men 51 Nancy and Pati in Middle Age 52 Each with a Tiny Difference PART FIVE: THE CRYSTAL-CLEAR VISION OF A POET 53 Desperate to Be Famous 54 Peace and Love 55 An English Connection 56 The Heart of the Maelstrom 57 Fantasy Made Actual 58 A Family on Their Lawn in Westchester 59 A Frightful Zombie 60 An Ideal Woman 61 A Political Year 62 Flatland 63 Swinging London Photographic Insert PART SIX: HAPPY EVEN THOUGH THEY DON’T HAVE ANYTHING 64 Asylum 65 Art and Money 66 Fantastic and Real 67 A Dowsing Rod for Anguish 68 Wild Dynamics 69 An Urban Palace 70 A Modern-Day Ingres 71 The Mexican Dwarf and the Jewish Giant PART SEVEN: HEARTBREAKING AND DIZZYING 72 Almost Like Ice 73 Storms 74 It’s All Chemical 75 Old Photographs, New Camera 76 Blood 77 Aging 78 Song and Dance 79 “Love” 80 A Woman Passing 81 You Can’t Come In 82 Loose Ends 83 Like Hamlet and Medea 84 Runes 85 Things That Nobody Would See Sources and Acknowledgments Notes Permissions Index About the Author Credits Copyright About the Publisher PHOTOGRAPHS DISCUSSED IN THE TEXT Room with lamp and light fixture, N.Y.C. 1944 Self-portrait pregnant, N.Y.C. 1945 Laughing girl, Italy, circa 1951 A hill in Frascati, Italy, circa 1952 Nuns and their charges, Italy, 1952 Boy above a crowd, N.Y.C. 1956 Boy in the subway, N.Y.C. 1956 Boy reading a magazine, N.Y.C. 1956 Boy stepping off the curb, N.Y.C. circa 1956 Carroll Baker on screen in “Baby Doll” (with silhouette), N.Y.C. 1956 Couple eating, N.Y.C. 1956 Falling leaf with bare branches in background, N.Y.C. 1956 Kiss from “Baby Doll,” N.Y.C. 1956 Lady on a bus, N.Y.C. 1956 Masked boy with friends, Coney Island, N.Y. 1956 People on a bench, Central Park, N.Y.C. 1956 Woman in a bow dress, N.Y.C. 1956 Woman carrying a child in Central Park, N.Y.C. 1956 Woman and a headless dummy, N.Y.C. 1956 Woman on the street with her eyes closed, N.Y.C. 1956 Woman on the street with parcels, N.Y.C. 1956 Woman with two men, N.Y.C. 1956 Kid in black-face with friend, N.Y.C. 1957 Couple in silhouette watching burning cross on screen, N.Y.C. 1958 Female impersonators’ dressing room, N.Y.C. 1958 Female impersonators in mirrors, N.Y.C. 1958 Women on a sun deck, Coney Island, N.Y. 1959 Andrew Ratoucheff in his rooming house, N.Y.C. 1960 Coney Island, N.Y. 1960 [windy group] Coney Island bath house, Brooklyn, N.Y. 1960 Couple arguing, Coney Island, N.Y. 1960 Flora Knapp Dickinson, Honorary Regent of the Washington Heights Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution, N.Y.C. 1960 Hezekiah Trambles “The Jungle Creep,” N.Y.C. 1960 Mrs. Dagmar Patino at the Grand Opera Ball, N.Y.C. 1960 Person Unknown, City Morgue, N.Y.C. 1960 Snake eating a rat backstage at Hubert’s Museum, N.Y.C. 1960 Walter L. Gregory “The Mad Man from Massachusetts,” N.Y.C. 1960 Wax museum strangler, Coney Island, N.Y. 1960 Woman shouting, Coney Island, N.Y. 1960 His Serene Highness, Prince Robert de Rohan Courtenay, 1961 The House of Horrors, Coney Island, N.Y. 1961 Jack Dracula, the Marked Man, N.Y.C. 1961 Max Maxwell Landar (Uncle Sam), 1961 Miss Cora Pratt, the counterfeit lady, 1961 Stormé DeLarverie, the lady who appears to be a gentleman, N.Y.C. 1961 Two female impersonators backstage, N.Y.C. 1961 William Mack, Sage of the Wilderness, N.Y.C. 1961 A castle in Disneyland, Cal. 1962 Child with a toy hand grenade in Central Park, N.Y.C. 1962 A girl in a hat at Central Park Lake, N.Y.C. 1962 Girl on a stoop with baby, N.Y.C. 1962 A house on a hill, Hollywood, Cal. 1962 James T. Farrell in his hotel room, N.Y.C. 1962
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