Diane Arbus - Photographs New York Tuesday, October 3, 2017 | Phillips
  • Provenance

    Looking Glass Gallery, Royal Oak, Michigan

  • Literature

    Aperture, Diane Arbus, n.p.
    Arbus, Sussman, Phillips, Selkirk and Rosenheim, Diane Arbus Revelations, pp. 304-305

  • Artist Biography

    Diane Arbus

    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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288

Albino Sword Swallower at a Carnival, MD.

1970
Gelatin silver print, printed later by Neil Selkirk.
14 5/8 x 15 in. (37.1 x 38.1 cm)
Stamped 'A Diane Arbus photograph', signed, titled, dated by Doon Arbus, Executor, in ink and reproduction limitation stamp on the verso. One from an edition of 75.

Estimate
$15,000 - 25,000 

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New York 3 October 2017