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In 1962, the scrawny kid was immortalized in Diane Arbus' 1962 photograph "Child ... a reminder of Wood's boyhood in the form of a Grenade Boy poster sent to him by a friend, who spotted it ...
A skinny young boy, named Colin Wood ... Nine other sales of the image have exceeded the $100,000 mark. Diane Arbus, Child With Toy Hand Grenade, Central Park, NYC, 1962, is for sale at artnet ...
Fourteen years ago, the exhibit “Diane Arbus Revelations ... “Child with a toy hand grenade in Central Park, N.Y.C” from 1962, and the dour “Boy with a straw hat waiting to march ...
Diane Arbus’ work was included in only a ... an elderly couple sitting naked in a nudist-camp cabin, a grimacing boy clutching a toy hand grenade—that seem to reflect our deepest fears and ...
By M.H. Miller Diane Arbus exhibited her work ... Another captured a boy in Central Park, vamping for the camera with a toy hand grenade. Arbus received scattered critical praise for the show ...
What did Diane Arbus say to this young boy with his ill-fitted Boater hat and barn door ears before she lifted her twin-lens Rolleiflex, square-format camera to capture his image in a blinding flash?
Diane Arbus in 35mm The iconic photograph, Child With a Toy Hand Grenade in Central Park (below) signals the moment when Arbus started working with the 2 1/4″ square format Rolleiflex camera ...
Writer Norman Mailer said that giving Diane Arbus a camera was 'like putting ... girls made famous in The Shining, the young boy with the toy grenade. Up until the final days before the exhibition ...
Fourteen years ago the exhibit “Diane Arbus Revelations ... “Child with a toy hand grenade in Central Park, N.Y.C” from 1962, and the dour “Boy with a straw hat waiting to march in ...