Diane Arbus
Man at a Parade on Fifth Avenue, N.Y.C.

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Man at a Parade on Fifth Avenue, N.Y.C.
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ArtistAmerican, 1923–1971
CultureAmerican
Titles
  • Man at a Parade on Fifth Avenue, N.Y.C.
Date1969, printed later
Place depictedNew York City, New York, United States
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 14 1/2 × 14 3/8 in. (36.8 × 36.5 cm)
Sheet: 19 7/8 × 15 15/16 in. (50.5 × 40.5 cm)
Credit LineThe Target Collection of American Photography, museum purchase funded by Target Stores
Object number76.261
Non exposé

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Department
Photography
Object Type
Description

Diane Arbus was one of the most original and influential American artists of the 20th century. Championed by John Szarkowski, director and curator of the photography department at New York's Museum of Modern Art, Arbus was included in the seminal 1967 exhibi-tion New Documents: Diane Arbus, Lee Friedlander, Garry Winogrand, which introduced the then-new con-cept of social landscape. Szarkowski exhibited the work of photographers whose “aim was not to reform life but to know it.”

Arbus began her career in fashion with her husband, Allan Arbus, and in the late 1950s she attended a workshop with renowned photographer Lisette Model, who encouraged Arbus not only to master standard photographic technique but also to seek her own subjects. On a Guggenheim Fellowship in the 1960s, Arbus explored "American rites, manners, and customs.” Likened to a contemporary anthropologist, Arbus took iconic and compelling portraits revealing the hidden side of a wide range of people, from those who epitomize societal norms to those on its extreme edges. The MFAH collection contains nearly 150 examples of Arbus's work and continues to acquire more.


 


Provenance Research Ongoing Exhibition History"Diane Arbus Revelations," San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, October 25, 2003–February 8, 2004;Los Angeles County Museum of Art, February 29– May 31, 2004; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, June 27–September 6, 2004; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, February 28–May 30, 2005; Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany, June 17–September 17, 2005; Victoria and Albert Museum, London,October 13, 2005–January 15, 2006; La Caixa, Barcelona,Spain, February 14–May 14, 2006; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, June 17–September10, 2006.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
verso top right in ink: Doon Arbus
verso top left a stamp: Not to be reproduced in any way without / written permission from Doon Arbus.
verso top right a stamp with additions in ink: A Diane Arbus photograph
title MAN AT A PARADE ON FIFTH AVENUE / NYC 1969
print by NEIL SELKIRK / Doon Arbus

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