MixedThe Financial TimesLubow’s style is for the most part descriptive and reportorial rather than sensational or analytic, and can suffer from the flatness of too much tell and not enough show ... At the front of the book he lists 157 of Arbus’s photographs which are to be 'discussed in the text' but not reproduced...though one can admire his efforts to supply written descriptions of each picture, it becomes frustrating, or, worse, a challenge to break off and look for them elsewhere ... Though Lubow never gets inside Arbus’s head, he does bring the reader to an understanding of how her life wound down.
