Acquired directly from the artist
From the Collection of Penny Ray, New York
Robert Klein Gallery, Boston
Presumed Innocence: Photographic Perspectives of Children, deCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, MA, 2 February - 27 April 2008
Aperture, Diane Arbus, cover and n.p.
Aperture, Photography Past Forward: Aperture at 50, p. 90
Arbus, Sussman, Phillips, Selkirk and Rosenheim, Diane Arbus: Revelations, pp. 182, 265 and 270-271
deCordova, Presumed Innocence, pl. 51
High Museum of Art, Chorus of Light: Photographs from the Sir Elton John Collection, p. 88
Newhall, The History of Photography, p. 290
Oxford History of Art, The Photograph, pl. 7
American • 1923 - 1971
Transgressing traditional boundaries, Diane Arbus is known for her highly desirable, groundbreaking portraiture taken primarily in the American Northeast during the late 1950s and 1960s. Famous for establishing strong personal relationships with her subjects, Arbus' evocative images capture them in varied levels of intimacy. Whether in their living rooms or on the street, their surreal beauty transcends the common distance found in documentary photography.
Taken as a whole, Arbus' oeuvre presents the great diversity of American society — nudists, twins, babies, beauty queens and giants — while each distinct image brings the viewer into contact with an exceptional individual brought to light through Arbus' undeniable genius.
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