© Estate of Diane Arbus
- Two Girls In Matching Bathing Suits, Coney Island, NY
Sheet: 19 7/8 × 16 in. (50.5 × 40.6 cm)
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Throughout the 1950s and 1960s, Diane Arbus made portraits of people living in and around New York City, developing a recognizably blunt style in which she closely scrutinized her subjects while maintaining a personal distance. Although best known for photographing those on the margins of society, she also photographed adolescents on the streets, middle-class families, and the social elite. By picturing such a wide range of people, Arbus portrayed the seemingly strange or flawed as common and familiar—and vice versa, as in this photograph of two young women in matching, striped swimsuits.
ProvenanceGay Block, Santa Fe, New Mexico; given to MFAH, 2005.
Exhibition History"Streetwise: Masters of 60s Photography," Knoxville Museum of Art, Knoxville, Tennessee, May 4–August 5, 2012.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Stamped, verso, upper right with additions in ink: A Diane Arbus photograph 14/75 //
title TWO GIRLS IN MATCHING BATHING // SUITS, CONEY ISLAND NY 1967print by NEIL SELKIRK //
Doon Arbus [signature]
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