Revisiting Diane Arbus’s Most Famous Photo on Her 94th Birthday. ... Diane Arbus, Child With Toy Hand Grenade, Central Park, NYC, 1962, is for sale at artnet Auctions, March 14–28, 2017.

Norman Mailer once said--after Diane Arbus photographed him--that "giving a camera to Diane Arbus is like putting a live grenade in the hands of a child." The following six pictures were among ...

Thirty-seven years ago today, Diane Arbus committed suicide in her New York City apartment by ingesting barbiturates and then slitting her wrists. She was only 48. Most people are familiar with ...

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It’s common knowledge now that Arbus spent her formative years in the photo business with her husband Allan Arbus, and that the two led a moderately successful fashion photography enterprise. Rarely ...

Diane Arbus photographed the world around her with unflinching honesty, as a new exhibit of over 500 her pictures at the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto reveals.

Among the previously unpublished photos: a tender shot of Susan Sontag—who'd later became one of Arbus' fiercest critics—and her son sitting together on a park bench, taken in 1965.

Credit Diane Arbus/The Estate of Diane Arbus LLC Child teasing another, N.Y.C., 1960. “She’s interested in how we choose our others, how we choose to behave in public.” ...

The new Diane Arbus show, which opened on July 12 at the Met Breuer, feels disorienting, even dizzying, at first, but not because of the content of the photographs or the overwhelming number of ...

And yet, there's something so compelling about Arbus that, like her photos, it's hard to look away. The second of three children, she was born in 1923 to Gertrude and David Nemerov.

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