Christie’s East, New York, 8 November 1982, lot 13
Private Collection
Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York
Private Collection, Germany
'Five Photographs by Diane Arbus,' Artforum, May 1971, p. 69
Diane Arbus, New York: Aperture, 1972, cover and n.p.
B. Newhall, The History of Photography from 1839 to the Present Date, New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1978, p. 290
S. Greenough et al, On the Art of Fixing a Shadow: One Hundred and Fifty Years of Photography, Washington: National Gallery of Art; Art Institute of Chicago, 1989, p. 436, pl. 359
Chorus of Light: Photographs from the Sir Elton John Collection, Atlanta: High Museum of Art; New York: Rizzoli, 2000, p. 88
Diane Arbus: Revelations, New York: Random House, 2003, pp. 265, 270-271 and contact sheet p. 182
Presumed Innocence: Photographic Perspectives of Children, Lincoln, MA: DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, 2008, pl. 51
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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