Diane Arbus | Inside the Installation

Diane Arbus: In the Park was the first exhibition to focus solely on Arbus’ photographs made in Central Park and Washington Square, theaters of public interaction that provided fertile territory for the creation of many of her most striking and original images. All of the works on view were made within four miles of where they were exhibited, at Lévy Gorvy’s New York location.

For Arbus, the city’s parks were arenas of rich and unpredictable encounter. The exhibition interweaves rarely seen photographs, such as A very thin man in Central Park, N.Y.C. 1961, alongside well-known images such as Child with a toy hand grenade in Central Park, N.Y.C. 1962, and Young man and his pregnant wife in Washington Square Park, N.Y.C. 1965. The majority of these works were the result of a single chance meeting between Arbus and her subjects. Several, including Girl in a beret in Central Park, N.Y.C., 1958 and Susan Sontag and her son on bench, N.Y.C., 1965 are being exhibited here for the first time.

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