Diane Arbus: An Aperture MonographWhen Diane Arbus died in 1971 at the age of 48, she was already a significant influenceeven a legendamong serious photographers, although only a small number of her pictures were widely known. The publication of Diane Arbus: An Aperture Monograph in 1972, and the posthumous retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art, offered the public its first encounter with Arbuss achievements. The response was unprecedented.