Doon Arbus, daughter of actor Allan Arbus

Allan Arbus

Allan Arbus is an American actor notable for his role as psychiatrist Dr. Sidney Freedman on the television series M*A*S*H.-Early life:...

 and the late photographer Diane Arbus

Diane Arbus

Diane Arbus March 14, 1923 – July 26, 1971) was an American photographer and writer noted for black-and-white square photographs of "deviant and marginal people or of people whose normality seems ugly or surreal." A friend said that Arbus said that she was "afraid.....

, is a writer

Writer

A writer is a person who produces literature, such as novels, short stories, plays, screenplays, poetry, or other literary art. Skilled writers are able to use language to portray ideas and images....

 and journalist

Journalist

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. Her sister, Amy Arbus

Amy Arbus

Amy Arbus is a New York City based photographer and is the daughter of actor Allan Arbus and photographer Diane Arbus, and the sister of writer and journalist Doon Arbus....

, is a photojournalist. According to The New York Times, Doon was 26 years old when her mother died.

Doon Arbus was a long-time collaborator of Richard Avedon

Richard Avedon

Richard Avedon was an American photographer. An obituary published in The New York Times said that "his fashion and portrait photographs helped define America's image of style, beauty and culture for the last half-century."-Photography career:Avedon was born in New York City to a Jewish Russian...

 with whom she co-authored the books, Avedon: The Sixties and Alice in Wonderland: The Forming of a Company, the Making of a Play. She has written for magazines including Rolling Stone

Rolling Stone

Rolling Stone is a US-based magazine devoted to music, liberal politics, and popular culture that is published every two weeks. Rolling Stone was founded in San Francisco in 1967 by Jann Wenner and music critic Ralph J...

and The Nation. Arbus has also authored or contributed to several books about her mother including, Diane Arbus Revelations, published by Random House (ISBN 0-375-50620-9). She also edited and designed (with Yolanda Cuomo) Untitled by Diane Arbus, published by Aperture

Aperture Foundation

The Aperture Foundation was founded in 1952 by Ansel Adams, Minor White, Barbara Morgan, Dorothea Lange, Nancy Newhall, Beaumont Newhall, Ernest Louie, Melton Ferris, and Dody Warren. Their vision was to create a forum for fine art photography, a new concept at the time. The first issue of...

in 1995.