Diane Arbus - Photographs London Thursday, November 21, 2024 | Phillips
  • Provenance

    Swann Auction Galleries, New York, Fine Photographs & Photobooks, 18 April 2013, lot 226

  • Literature

    Aperture, Diane Arbus, n.p.
    Aperture, Diane Arbus: Magazine Work, p. 68
    Arbus, Sussman, Phillips, Selkirk and Rosenheim, Diane Arbus: Revelations, p. 295
    The Museum of Modern Art, Arbus Friedlander Winogrand: New Documents, 1967, p. 46

  • 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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A family one evening in a nudist camp, 1965

Gelatin silver print, printed later by Neil Selkirk.
37.5 x 37.5 cm (14 3/4 x 14 3/4 in.)
Stamped 'A Diane Arbus photograph', signed, titled, dated, numbered 14/75 by Doon Arbus, Executor, in ink, estate copyright credit and reproduction limitation stamps on the verso.

Estimate
£5,000 - 7,000 

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London Auction 21 November 2024