Diane Arbus, Two Men Dancing at a Drag Ball, NYC
Diane Arbus, Two Men Dancing at a Drag Ball, NYC
Gelatin Silver Print
Image: 16' x 16"/ Sheet: 20" x 16"
Edition of 75
Framed
Ships from Miami Beach, United States
"Two Men Dancing at a Drag Ball, NYC." Gelatin silver print, with Doon Arbus' signature (estate executor), the title, date, edition notation, as well as a copyright hand stamp and an Estate of Diane Arbus hand stamp, all on verso. 1970; printed later. Prints of this image are in the permanent collections of the Tate Modern, London, Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC, National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh, Centre Pompidou, Paris, Museum of Modern Art, NYC, and other museums.
About the artist
DIANE ARBUS
Diane Arbus (1923–1971) was an American photographer and one of the most influential artists of the twentieth century. Working in New York in the 1950s and 1960s, she made direct, square-format portraits of people on the margins of mainstream society, including performers, nudists, drag queens and twins, alongside ordinary families and suburbanites.
Her work was shown at the Museum of Modern Art in the landmark 1967 exhibition New Documents, and a posthumous MoMA retrospective in 1972 drew record crowds. Her photographs are held by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, MoMA, Tate and the Centre Pompidou, among many others. Prints made after her death are produced under the authority of her estate.