Feb 19, 2015 - Sale 2374

Sale 2374 - Lot 121

Unsold
Estimate: $ 20,000 - $ 30,000
ARBUS, DIANE (1923-1971)/SELKIRK, NEIL (1947- )
"Teenage couple on Hudson Street, N.Y.C." Silver print, approximately 14 1/4 inches (36.2 cm.) square, with the A Diane Arbus Photograph hand stamp with Doon Arbus' signature, title, date, and the edition notation 45/75, in ink, as well as the Copyright (with the date 1967) and All Rights Reserved hand stamps, all on verso. 1963; printed later
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From the Collection of Steve Pyke.


Diane Arbus was among the boldest, most innovative and uncompromising artists to explore photography as a form of creative expression. Her iconography of powerful portraits, which quickly developed during the 1960s, captured the changing zeitgeist of the American social landscape.

The year this picture was made (1963), Arbus applied for a Guggenheim Fellowship, and asked Lisette Model to provide a letter of recommendation. Model's letter read, in part: "Photographers can be good, bad, excellent, first rate, or tops, but there are hardly any artists among them. Here is an exception." Later that year, Arbus was awarded a fellowship to pursue a project relating to "photographic studies of American rites, manners and customs."

Diane Arbus (Aperture, 1972), unpaginated.

Diane Arbus, Revelations, p. 102.