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`Two friends in the park`, New York City

DIANE ARBUS (1923–1971)
1965
Gelatin silver print, printed later by Neil Selkirk
38 x 37,7 cm

Signed and dated by the photographer's daughter, Doon Arbus, in ink on the reverse (a diane arbus photograph label), edition no. "12/75”, photographer's estate stamp and "a diane arbus photograph" copyright stamp on the reverse

Leitz Auction
Photographs
Nov 22
Estimate
€ 16.000- € 18.000

In 1965 Arbus shot a series of photographs about couples for Harper’s Bazaar titled “On Marriage”. “Familial Colloquies” a simultaneous and somewhat parallel assignment for Esquire (July 1965) also consists of photographs of two people, mostly parents and their children. The present double portrait was taken at the same time as those two assignments. Beginning in May 1965 and throughout the following summer, Arbus spends a lot of time working in and around Washington Square Park in New York, photographing the people who would hang out there. Later Arbus claimed that she found the park one of the more intimidating and impenetrable worlds she has yet attempted to explore, although it also proves to be among the most productive locations. It is interesting that Arbus often approached people who did not follow clear gender roles, and whose relationship to each other cannot be clearly defined from their portraits.

And so does the present photograph Two Friends in a Park leave some questions unanswered, which makes it even more appealing.

PROVENANCE Thomas Zander Gallery

 

LITERATURE Diane Arbus, An Aperture Monograph, New York 1972, s.p; Diane Arbus / Elisabeth Sussman / Sandra Phillips / Neil Selkirk and Jeff L. Rosenheim (ed.), Diane Arbus: Revelations, Munich 2003, p.75 (same boy depicted) and p. 173 (same series)

Signed and dated by the photographer's daughter, Doon Arbus, in ink on the reverse (a diane arbus photograph label), edition no. "12/75”, photographer's estate stamp and "a diane arbus photograph" copyright stamp on the reverse


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