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12/10/2005

Diane Arbus

Victoria & Albert Museum, London

Revelations. A large retrospective


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"Nothing is ever the same as they said it was. It's what I've never seen before that I recognize." Diane Arbus

The V&As major exhibition this autumn is Diane Arbus Revelations. Arbus is the legendary New York photographer whose work captured 1950s and 1960s America and transformed the art of photography. The exhibition is the largest retrospective of her work ever assembled and is the first international Arbus exhibition for over 30 years.

The exhibition consists of nearly 200 of the artist's most significant photographs. Prints are drawn from major public and private collections throughout the world and include many images that have never been exhibited publicly. Among the works on display are such iconic images as 'Identical twins, Roselle, N.J. 1967' and 'A young man in curlers at home on West 20th Street, N.Y.C. 1966'. Benefiting from new research, the exhibition also reveals the artist's methodology and intellectual influences through an innovative presentation of contact sheets, cameras, letters, notebooks, and other writings, as well as books and ephemera from Arbus's personal library.

Mark Jones, the director of the V&A, said: “Diane Arbus changed the face of photography with her powerful and moving photographs which captured 1950s and 1960s America. She has had a profound influence on photographers ever since and on the way we look at our fellow human beings. This is a long overdue retrospective which shows her work is as compelling as ever.”

Diane Arbus (1923-1971) was born in New York City and found most of her subjects there. She was a photographer primarily of people she discovered in the metropolis and its environs. Her “contemporary anthropology” - portraits of couples, children, carnival performers, nudists, middle-class families, transvestites, people on the street, zealots, eccentrics, and celebrities - stands as an allegory of postwar America and an exploration of the relationship between appearance and identity, illusion and belief, theatre and reality.

For Arbus, photography was a medium that tangled with the facts. Many of her subjects face the camera implicitly aware of their collaboration in the portrait-making process. In her photographs, the self-conscious encounter between photographer and subject becomes a central drama of the picture.

This exhibition was organised by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

The international tour was made possible by the Evelyn D. Haas Exhibition Fund and Charles Schwab & Co., Inc.

Additional support has been provided by Carla Emil and Rich Silverstein, Randi and Bob Fisher, Prentice and Paul Sack, and Linda and Jon Gruber.
For further PRESS information, please contact Rebecca Ward for the V&A Press Office on 020 76133306

Image: A young Brooklyn family going for a Sunday outing, N.Y.C. 1966
Copyright © 1966 The Estate of Diane Arbus, LLC

Victoria and Albert Museum
Cromwell Road London SW7 2RL
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10.00-17.45 daily. 10.00-22.00 Wednesdays and last Friday of the month (except December). Closed 24-26 December. Exhibition closes five minutes before Museum. Last entry 17.20 (last ticket sold 17.15). Late opening last entry 21.20 (last ticket sold 21.15)

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