Editing Diane Arbus (section)

== Notable photographs ==
[[Image:childwithhandgrenadedianearbus.jpg|thumb|''[[Child with Toy Hand Grenade in Central Park|Child with Toy Hand Grenade in Central Park, N.Y.C. 1962]] (1962)'']]
[[Image:Identical Twins, Roselle, New Jersey, 1967.jpg|thumb|''[[Identical Twins, Roselle, New Jersey, 1967]]'']]
[[Image:Eddie Carmel and parents, 1970.jpg|thumb|[[Eddie Carmel]], ''Jewish Giant, taken at Home with His Parents in the Bronx, New York, 1970'']]

Arbus's most well-known photographs include:
* ''[[Child with Toy Hand Grenade in Central Park]], N.Y.C. 1962'' – Colin Wood,<ref name=Segal>[[David Segal (journalist)|Segal, David]]. [https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/05/11/AR2005051102052.html "Double Exposure: a Moment with Diane Arbus Created a Lasting Impression"]. ''[[The Washington Post]]'', May 12, 2005. Retrieved February 3, 2010.</ref> with the left strap of his jumper awkwardly hanging off his shoulder, tensely holds his long, thin arms by his side. Clenching a toy [[grenade]] in his right hand and holding his left hand in a claw-like gesture, his facial expression is one of consternation. The [[contact sheet]]<ref>Published in ''Diane Arbus: Revelations'', 2003, p. 164, and online in the article [http://lucileee.blog.lemonde.fr/2006/11/24/paris-photo-5-diane-arbus-a-la-galerie-robert-miller/ ''Paris Photo 6 : Diane Arbus à la galerie Robert Miller''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160512164620/http://lucileee.blog.lemonde.fr/2006/11/24/paris-photo-5-diane-arbus-a-la-galerie-robert-miller/ |date=May 12, 2016 }}, 2006.</ref> demonstrates that Arbus made an editorial choice in selecting which image to print.<ref name="Bissell">Bissell, Gerhard. [http://www.degruyter.com/view/AKL/_30163152?rskey=DzE3F4&result=1&dbq_0=%22Arbus%2C+Diane%22&dbf_0=akl-name&dbt_0=name&o_0=AND "Arbus, Diane"], in ''[[Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon]] (Artists of the World)'', Supplement I, [[K. G. Saur Verlag|Saur]], [[Munich]] 2005, p. 413 (in German), and [http://gerbis.net/publications/arbus.html "Diane Arbus"] (condensed English version).</ref> A print of this photograph was sold in 2015 at auction for $785,000, an auction record for Arbus.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Christie's |first1=Lot 26A |title=Diane Arbus (1923–1971) Child with a toy hand grenade in Central Park, N.Y.C., 1962 |url=https://www.christies.com/Lotfinder/lot_details.aspx?hdnSaleID=25299&LN=0026A&intsaleid=25299&sid=8168a379-e219-4d77-8e8b-e76bcfad79ec |website=www.christies.com |publisher=Christie's |access-date=November 13, 2018}}</ref>
* ''Teenage Couple on Hudson Street, N.Y.C., 1963'' – Wearing long coats and "worldlywise expressions", two adolescents appear older than their ages.<ref name=Brill>Brill, Lesley. "The Photography of Diane Arbus". ''Journal of American Culture'', vol. 5, issue 1, pp. 69–76, Spring 1982.</ref>
* ''Triplets in Their Bedroom, N.J. 1963'' – Three girls sit at the head of a bed.<ref name=Brill/><ref name=Kimmelman2005/>
* ''A Young Brooklyn Family Going for a Sunday Outing, N.Y.C. 1966'' – Richard and Marylin Dauria, who lived in the Bronx. Marylin holds their baby daughter, and Richard holds the hand of their young son, who is intellectually disabled.<ref name=Lacayo/><ref>{{cite web |url=http://missmena.wordpress.com/2009/03/03/%E2%80%9Ca-young-brooklyn-family-going-for-a-sunday-outing-nyc-1966%E2%80%9D-diane-arbus/ |title="A young Brooklyn family going for a Sunday outing, N.Y.C., 1966" ~ Diane Arbus « Adrianna Mena |access-date=March 19, 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110822054813/http://missmena.wordpress.com/2009/03/03/%E2%80%9Ca-young-brooklyn-family-going-for-a-sunday-outing-nyc-1966%E2%80%9D-diane-arbus/ |archive-date=August 22, 2011 }}</ref>
* ''A Young Man in Curlers at Home on West 20th Street, N.Y.C. 1966'' – A close-up shows the man's pock-marked face with plucked eyebrows, and his hand with long fingernails holds a cigarette. Early reactions to the photograph were strong; for example, someone spat on it in 1967 at the Museum of Modern Art.<ref name=Rubinfien2005/> A print was sold for $198,400 at a 2004 auction.<ref name=Artnet2004>Artnet. [http://www.artnet.com/magazine/news/artmarketwatch2/artmarketwatch5-4-04.asp "Art Market Watch"]. May 4, 2004. Retrieved February 6, 2010.</ref>
* ''Boy With a Straw Hat Waiting to March in a Pro-War Parade, N.Y.C. 1967'' – With an American flag at his side, he wears a bow tie, a pin in the shape of a bow tie with an American flag motif, and two round button badges: "Bomb Hanoi" and "God Bless America / Support Our Boys in Viet Nam". The image may cause the viewer to feel both different from the boy and sympathetic toward him.<ref name=Kimmelman2005/> An art consulting firm purchased a print for $245,000 at a 2016 auction.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.christies.com/Lotfinder/lot_details.aspx?hdnSaleID=26506&LN=117&intsaleid=26506&sid=844eec9c-2b60-4eb5-b974-254e8857e342|title=Diane Arbus (1923–1971), Boy with a straw hat waiting to march in a pro-war parade, N.Y.C., 1967|last=Christie's|first=Lot 117|date=April 6, 2016|website=www.christies.com|access-date=October 12, 2018}}</ref>
* ''[[Identical Twins, Roselle, New Jersey, 1967|Identical Twins, Roselle, N.J. 1967]]'' – Young twin sisters Cathleen and Colleen Wade<ref name=Segal/> stand side by side in dark dresses. The uniformity of their clothing and haircut characterize them as being twins while the facial expressions strongly accentuate their individuality.<ref name=Bissell/> This photograph is echoed in [[Stanley Kubrick]]'s film ''[[The Shining (film)|The Shining]]'', which features twins in an identical pose as ghosts.<ref name=Segal/> A print was sold at auction for $732,500 in 2018.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.christies.com/lotfinder/lot_details.aspx?intObjectID=6159681&from=salesummery&intObjectID=6159681&sid=a2c6bda6-9402-4365-9d7a-84a7cf1b2103|title=Diane Arbus (1923–1971) Identical twins, Roselle, N.J., 1966|language=en|access-date=October 12, 2018}}</ref>
* ''A Family on Their Lawn One Sunday in Westchester, N.Y. 1968'' – A woman and a man sunbathe while a boy bends over a small plastic wading pool behind them. In 1972, Neil Selkirk was put in charge of producing an exhibition print of this image when Marvin Israel advised him to make the background trees appear "like a theatrical backdrop that might at any moment roll forward across the lawn.".<ref name=Revelations/>{{rp|270}} This anecdote illustrates vividly just how fundamental dialectics between appearance and substance are for the understanding of Arbus's art.<ref name=Bissell/> A print was sold at auction in 2008 for $553,000.<ref>Sotheby's. [http://www.sothebys.com/app/live/lot/LotDetail.jsp?lot_id=159441193 "A Family on the Lawn One Sunday in Westchester, N.Y."]{{dead link|date=September 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} April 8, 2008. Retrieved February 7, 2010.</ref>
* ''A Naked Man Being a Woman, N.Y.C. 1968'' – The subject has been described as in a "Venus-on-the-half-shell pose"<ref name=Lubow2003/> (referring to [[The Birth of Venus (Botticelli)|''The Birth of Venus'' by Sandro Botticelli]]) or as "a Madonna turned in contrapposto... with his penis hidden between his legs"<ref name=Kimmelman2005/> (referring to a [[Madonna (art)|Madonna]] in [[contrapposto]]). The parted curtain behind the man adds to the theatrical quality of the photograph.<ref name=Sass/>
* ''A Very Young Baby, N.Y.C. 1968'' – A photograph for ''Harper's Bazaar'' depicts [[Gloria Vanderbilt]]'s then-infant son, the future [[CNN]] anchorman [[Anderson Cooper]].<ref name=Segal/>
* ''A Jewish Giant at Home with His Parents in The Bronx, N.Y. 1970'' – [[Eddie Carmel]], the "Jewish Giant", stands in his family's apartment with his much shorter mother and father. Arbus reportedly said to a friend about this picture: "You know how every mother has nightmares when she's pregnant that her baby will be born a monster?... I think I got that in the mother's face...."<ref name=Hume>Hume, Christopher. "Photography's Tragic Poet of the Bizarre". ''Toronto Star'', January 11, 1991.</ref> The photograph motivated Carmel's cousin to narrate a 1999 audio documentary about him.<ref>[http://soundportraits.org/on-air/the_jewish_giant/ "The Jewish Giant"]. {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100610024508/http://soundportraits.org/on-air/the_jewish_giant/ |date=June 10, 2010 }} Sound Portraits Productions, October 6, 1999. Retrieved February 5, 2010.</ref> A print was sold at auction for $583,500 in 2017.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.christies.com/Lotfinder/lot_details.aspx?hdnSaleID=26796&LN=0025B&intsaleid=26796&sid=0fdadc5b-4091-4770-97d9-6cbe48605398|title=Diane Arbus, A Jewish Giant at Home|last=Christie's|first=Lot 25B|date=May 17, 2017|website=www.christies.com|language=en|access-date=October 12, 2018}}</ref>

In addition, Arbus's ''A box of ten photographs'' was a portfolio of selected 1963–1970 photographs in a clear [[Poly(methyl methacrylate)|Plexiglas]] box/frame that was designed by Marvin Israel and was to have been issued in a limited edition of 50.<ref name=Gefter/><ref>[[Lindsay Pollock|Pollock, Lindsay]]. [http://www.nysun.com/arts/arbus-traveling-circus/12576/ "The Arbus Traveling Circus"]. ''[[The New York Sun]]'', April 21, 2005. Retrieved February 5, 2010.</ref> However, Arbus completed only eight boxes<ref name=Jacob2018/>{{rp|137}} and sold only four (two to Richard Avedon, one to [[Jasper Johns]], and one to [[Bea Feitler]]).<ref name=Revelations/>{{rp|220}}<ref name=DeCarlo2004/><ref name=Bunnell1973/> After Arbus's death, under the auspices of the Estate of Diane Arbus, [[Neil Selkirk]] began printing to complete Arbus's intended edition of 50.<ref name=Jacob2018/>{{rp|78}} In 2017, one of these posthumous editions sold for $792,500 in 2017.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Christie's |first1=Lot 23 |title=Diane Arbus (1923–1971) A box of ten photographs |url=https://www.christies.com/lotfinder/lot_details.aspx?intObjectID=6132048&from=salesummery&intobjectid=6132048&sid=71b6a69e-7e81-475a-bf4d-f5801b1538fb |website=www.christies.com |publisher=Christies |access-date=November 13, 2018}}</ref>