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DIANE ARBUS (1923–1971)
The Man from World War Zero and His Wife the Alligator Skin Lady, N.J., 1964
gelatin silver print, printed later by Neil Selkirk
stamped 'A Diane Arbus photograph', signed, titled and numbered '7/75' by Doon Arbus, Executor, in ink with stamped Estate copyright credit and annotated in pencil (verso); credited, titled and dated on affixed exhibition labels (frame backing board)
image: 14 x 1418 in. (35.6 x 35.9 cm.)
sheet: 1978 x 16 in. (50.5 x 40.6 cm.)
This work is number seven from an edition of seventy-five.
Provenance
Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco;
acquired from the above by the present owner, 2005.
Literature
Doon Arbus and Marvin Israel (ed.), Diane Arbus, Aperture, Millerton, New York, 1972, n.p.
Sandra Phillips et al., Diane Arbus Revelations, Random House, New York, 2003, p. 60.
Exhibited
Arles, Recontres de la Photographie; Lausanne, Musée de l'Élysée; Amsterdam, FOAM Fotogafiemuseum, Sans Regard or No Eyes: Photographs from W.M. Hunt / Collection Dancing Bear, 2005-2007.
Rochester, George Eastman House, The Unseen Eye: Photographs from the W.M. Hunt Collection, October 1, 2011–February 19, 2012.
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