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Diane Arbus

(American, 1923–1971)

Diane Arbus

Blonde woman with shiny lipstick, NYC, created: 1967

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Woman with eyeliner, NYC, printed: 2003

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Diane Arbus

Transvestite at her birthday party, 1969

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Diane Arbus

Young couple on a bench in Washington Square Park, NYC, 1965

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Diane Arbus

A young man and his girlfriend with hot dogs in the park, N.Y.C. 1971, 1971

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Diane Arbus

Puerto Rican woman with a beauty mark, 1965

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Diane Arbus

Camp Lakecrest campers as trees, Dutchess County, NY, 1968

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Diane Arbus

Muscle Man contestant, N.Y.C., 1968

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Diane Arbus

Untitled (17), 1970

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Biography

Timeline

1923: Born Diane Nemerov on March 14th, 1923, in New York, NY
1929 - 1937: Attended the Ethical Culture Elementary School
1937 - 1941: Attended the Fieldston High School
1941: Married Allan Arbus
1955 - 1957: Studied photography with Lisette Model, New School for Social Research, New York, NY
1956: Abandoned fashion photography to pursue her own work
1959: Separated from Allan Arbus
1960: Her first published photographs appeared in Esquire
1963 - 1966: Instructor of Photography, Parson School of Design, New York, NY and Instructor of Photography, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
1963: Received her first Guggenheim Fellowship for her project AMERICAN
1966: Awarded Guggenheim Fellowship
1968 - 1969: Instructor of Photography, Cooper Union, New York, NY
1970 - 1971: Instructor of Photography, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
1970: Recipient: Robert Leavitt Award
: Taught at Rhode Island School of Design, Providence
1971: Died on July 26th, 1971, in New York, NY

Exhibitions

2013: Dark Blue The Water as Protagonist - Haggerty Museum of Art, Milwaukee, WI
: Une Affaire De Famille - La Photographie Dans Les Collections De Stephane, Rodolphe Et Sebastien Janssen - Museé de la photographie de Charleroi, Charleroi
: Light Sensitive - Nasher Museum of Art, Durham, NC
: The Time is Now - John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
: The Unphotographable - Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2012: September 11, P.S.1. MoMa, New York, USA
: Diane Arbus, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Germany (solo)
: Diane Arbus, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, Germany (solo)
: Another story. 1000 Photographs from the Moderna Museet Collection, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
: Diane Arbus: Affinities, Timothy Taylor Gallery, London, UK (solo)
: Through the Looking Glass, me Collectors Room, Berlin, Germany
2011 - 2012: PHOTOGRAPHY CALLING! Fotografie und Gegenwart, Sprengel Museum Hannover, Hannover, Germany
: Diane Arbus, Peder Lund, Oslo, Norway (solo)
: Diane Arbus Retrospective, Jeu de Paume, Paris, France; Fotomuseum, Winterthur, Zurich, Swtizerland; Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, Germany; FOAM, Amsterdam, Holland (solo)
: Diane Arbus: People and Other Singularities, Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills, USA (solo)
2011: Pictures by Women: A History of Modern Photography, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
: Artists Rooms, Tate Modern, London, GB (solo)
2010: 75 Years of Looking Forward: Focus on Artists, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
: Private Eyes, la Colección de Laurence Miller, Sala Municipal de San Benito, Valladolid, Spain
: Picturing New York: Photographs from The Museum of Modern Art, IMMA, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland
: The Sum of Myself: Photographic Self-Portraits from the Audrey and Sydney Irmas Collection, Los Angeles County Museum of Art / LACMA, Los Angeles
: Masters of Photography, Fifty One Fine Art Photography, Antwerpen, Belgium
: Face to Face: 150 Years of Photographic Portraiture, Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix and CCP Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, USA
: elles@centrepompidou, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
: Diane Arbus: Christ in a lobby and Other Unknown or Almost Known Works Selected by Robert Gober, Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, CA (solo)
: Diane Arbus: In the Absence of Others,Cheim & Reid, New York, NY (solo)
: Street & Studio, Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany
: New at the Morgan: Acquisitions Since 2004, The Morgan Library & Museum, New York, NY
: The Female Gaze: Women Look at Women, Cheim & Read, New York, NY
: Artist Rooms: Diane Arbus, National Museum, Cardiff, UK (solo)
: Sander's Children, Danziger Projects, New York
: Seventies, le choc de la photographie américaine, BNF – Bibliothèque National de France, Paris, France
: 1968. Die große Unschuld, Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany
: The Fallen Angels, Watarium Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokio, Japan
: The White Under The Red, Galerie Metro, Berlin, Germany
2009: Diane Arbus, Timothy Taylor Gallery, London, UK (solo)
: BIG CITY, Wien Museum, Vienna, Austria
2008 - 2009: Le Choc de la Photographie Americaine, Bibliotheque Nationale de France, Paris, France
: Diane Arbus: A Printed Retrospective, 1960-1971, Curated by Pierre Leguillon, Kadist Art Foundation, Paris, France (solo)
: New York at Night: Photographs from the Collection, MoMA – The Museum of Modern Art, New York
: Female Trouble, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, Germany
: Diane Arbus, Neil Selkirk, Camera Work, Berlin, Germany
: Street & Studio: An Urban History of Photography, Tate Modern, London
: People, Jim Kempner Fine Art, New York, NY
2008: Arbus, Avedon, Sander, Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York, NY
: Times Square, Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York, NY
2007: Diane Arbus - Helen Levitt: A Conversation, Laurence Miller Gallery, New York
: NEW YORK, NY, Fifty One Fine Art Photography, Antwerpen, Belgium
: Americans, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria
: June Bride, Yossi Milo Gallery, New York, NY
: All the More Real, Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY
: Second View, Kloster Unser Lieben Frauen, Magdeburg, Germany
: Something Was There: Early Work by Diane Arbus, Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, CA (solo)
: Diane Arbus, Galerie Thomas Zander, Cologne, Germany (solo)
: A Fine Collection, A Gallery for Fine Photography, New Orleans, LA (solo)
: The Street: Pioneers of 20th-Century Photography, Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
: The photographs of Diane Arbus, Gold Coast City Art Gallery, Australia (solo)
: Biennale Internazionale di Fotografia di Brescia, Italy
2006: Eye of the Beholder: Photographs from the Collection of Richard Avedon, Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York, NY; Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, CA
: Das Achte Feld/The Eight Square, Museum Ludwig Cologne, Germany
: Recent Acquisitions: New York Street Photography from the 1960s and 1970s, (16 Diane Arbus Coney Island photographs) New York Public Library, New York, NY
: The Construction of the Other, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, Belgium
: Diane Arbus, Gallery Koyanagi, Portland, OR (solo)
2005: Photographing the Museum, Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York, NY
: Bilanz in zwei Akten, Kunstverein Hannover, Hannover, Germany
: Family Albums, Reynolda House Museum of American Art, Winston-Salem, USA / Portland Art Museum, Portland, USA(solo)
: Set Up: Recent Acquisitions in Photography, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
: Reinstallation of The Museum of Modern Art's Collection, MoMA – The Museum of Modern Art, New York
: Diane Arbus: Other Faces, Other Rooms, Robert Miller Gallery, New York, NY  (solo)
2004 - 2005: Diane Arbus: Family Albums, Mount Holyoke College Art Museum, South Hadley, MA; Grey Art Gallery, New York, NY; Portland Art Museum, Portland, ME; Spencer Museum of Art, Lawrence, KS (solo)
2004: Ghost Stories: The Disembodied Spirit, Austin Museum of Art, Austin, TX
: Menschenbilder, Galerie Thomas Zander, Cologne, Germany
: Photographers of Genius, Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA
: Family Albums, Portland Museum of Art, Portland, USA / Grey Art Gallery, New York University (solo)
: Female Identities? Künstlerinnen der Sammlung Goetz, Weserburg I Museum für Moderne Kunst, Bremen, Germany
: Photography Until Now; Museum of Modern Art, New York (auch im Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio)
: On the Art of Fixing a Shadow: One Hundred and Fifty Years of Photography; National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. und Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois (auch im Los Angeles County Museum of Art)
2003 - 2006: Diane Arbus: Revelations, (200 photographs and supplementary ephemera), San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY; Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany; Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK; Fundació la Caixa, Barcelona, Spain; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN (solo)
: A Clear Vision, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany
2003 - 2004: Cruel and Tender, Tate Modern, London; Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany
: Flesh Tones, Robert Mann Gallery, New York, NY
: Pictures from Within, Whitney Museum, New York, NY
: Diane Arbus, De Hallen, Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem, Niederlande 1972 (solo)
2003: Gogh Modern, Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2002 - 2005: Eye to Eye, Groninger Museum, Holland, The Netherlands
2002: American Standard: (Para) Normality and Everyday Life, Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York, NY
2001 - 2002: J. Johnson Gallery, Jacksonville, FL
2001: Voice, Image, Gesture: Selections from The Jewish Museum’s Collection, 1945 – 2000, The Jewish Museum, New York, NY
: Homage to the Square: Picturing Washington Square, 1890-1865, Berry-Hill Galleries, Inc., New York, NY
: Diane Arbus: A Box of Ten Photographs, Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, CA (solo)
2000 - 2001: Diane Arbus: Untitled 1969-1971, Galerie Karsten Greve, Cologne, Germany (solo)
2000: Galerie Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels, Belgium (solo)
1997: Diane Arbus: Women, Galleria Photology, Milan, Italy (solo)
1996 - 1997: Diane Arbus: Women, Robert Miller Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
1996: Untitled: Diane Arbus, Pace Wildenstein, Los Angeles, CA (solo)
1995: The Movies: Photographs from 1956 to 1958, Robert Miller Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
1992: Diane Arbus: Untitled 1970-71, Jan Kesner Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (solo)
1991: Diane Arbus: Photographs, Edwynn Houk Gallery, Chicago, IL (solo)
: Diane Arbus: Untitled 1970-71, Robert Miller Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
1977: Mirrors and Windows: American Photography since 1960; Museum of Modern Art; New York
1972: Retrospective, Museum of Modern Art, New York (solo)
1971: Contemporary Photographs I; Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
: Venice Biennale, Italy
1969: Thirteen Photographers; Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, New York
: Human Concern/Personal Torment: The Grotesque in American Art; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
: New Photography U.S.A., Museum of Modern Art, New York
: 10 Photographers; U.S. Pavilion, Japan World Exhibition, Osaka, Japan
1967: New Documents: Diane Arbus, Lee Friedlander, Garry Winogrand; Museum of Modern Art; New York
1965: Recent Acquisitions: Photography; Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York; School of Fine Arts, University of Wisconsin
: Invitational Exhibition: 10 American Photographers Milwaukee
1955: The Family of Man (with Allan Arbus), Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York

Public Collections

: FAIF Collection, Zurich, Switzerland
: Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge / MA, USA
: Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Poughkeepsie
: Davison Art Center, Middletown
: Cleveland Museum of Art, USA
: Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, USA
: Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham / Alabama, UK / USA
: BA-CA Kunstforum, Vienna, Austria
: Akron Art Museum
: New Orleans Museum of Art, USA
: National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan
: National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, USA
: Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg / Florida, Russia / USA
: Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, USA
: Moderna Museet Stockholm, Sweden
: Moderna Museet Malmö, Sweden
: Milwaukee Art Museum, USA
: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, USA
: John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota
: Yokohama Museum of Art
: Ydessa Hendeles Art Foundation, Toronto, Canada
: Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown
: Vancouver Art Gallery, Canada
: The Progressive Art Collection, Mayfield Village
: Sweet Briar College Art Gallery
: Spencer Museum of Art, Lawrence
: Sammlung Goetz, Munich, Germany
: Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain
: International Center of Photography, New York, USA
: IVAM Valencia, Spain

Literature

2012: Diane Arbus: An Aperture Monograph: Fortieth-Anniversary Edition by Marvin Israel, Doon Arbus and Diane Arbus
2011: Diane Arbus – Untitled, Ausst.Kat., Schirmer Mosel: München, 2011
: Photography calling!, Ausst.Kat., Steidl: Göttingen, 2011
2005: Diane Arbus: The Libraries, 2005 (ed. by Doon Arbus)
2003: Diane Arbus: Familiy Album, 2003
: Arbus, Diane. Revelations. New York: Random House and Toronto: Random House of Canada Limited
1995: Arbus and Yolanda Cuomo, Eds. Untitled. New York: Aperture
1984: Arbus, Diane. and Thomas W. Southall. Diane Arbus Magazine Work. Eds. Doon Arbus and Marvin Israel. Millerton. NY: Aperture
1972: Arbus, Diane. Diane Arbus. Eds. Doon Arbus and Marvin Israel

Diane Arbus

(American, 1923–1971)

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Biography

Timeline

Exhibitions

Public Collections

Literature

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