Diane Arbus: An Aperture Monograph: Fortieth-Anniversary EditionWhen Diane Arbus died in 1971 at the age of 48, she was already a significant influence even something of a legend for serious photographers, although only a relatively small number of her most important pictures were widely known at the time. The publication of Diane Arbus: An Aperture Monograph in 1972 along with the posthumous retrospective at The Museum of Modern Art offered the general public its first encounter with the breadth and power of her