Diane Arbus

[American Photographer, 1923-1971]

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3 photographs by Diane Arbus online

Diane Arbus at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City
Screaming Woman with Blood on Her Hands, ca.1958

Diane Arbus at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City
Diane Arbus Revelations

Diane Arbus at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City
The Headless Woman, 1961

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
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Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, Massachusetts

Birmingham Museum of Art, Alabama
Two Girls in Matching Bathing Suits

Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
The human pincushion at a carnival in his silk shirt, N.J., 1961

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Diane Arbus in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art Database

Mount Holyoke College Art Museum, Massachusetts
2 photographs

Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles

Museum of Contemporary Photography at Columbia College, Chicago

Spencer Museum of Art at the University of Kansas
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Diane Arbus: An Unofficial Website

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The Sender Collection, New York
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Shooting from the Hip: The first Diane Arbus retrospective in three decades presents a portrait of a woman warrior who constantly exposed herself to physical and psychic risk, sought out marginal as well as celebrated people, and recorded her times with the urgency of a photojournalist in the midst of a war

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