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Fraenkel Gallery

Diane Arbus: in the beginning

Black-and-white photograph of light from a movie projector streaming across a balcony
42nd Street movie theater audience, N.Y.C. 1958
gelatin silver print, 16 x 20 inches (sheet)
Black-and-white photograph of a boy wearing tie, coat, and hat with full brim
Boy in a man’s hat, N.Y.C. 1956
gelatin silver print, 14 x 11 inches (sheet)
Black-and-white photograph of Dracula with one eyebrow raised on a movie screen
Bela Lugosi as “Dracula,” close-up 1958
gelatin silver print, 11 x 14 inches (sheet)
Black-and-white photograph of a woman wearing a fur coat and hat sitting in the back of a bus
Lady on a bus, N.Y.C. 1956
gelatin silver print, 14 x 11 inches (sheet)
Black-and-white photograph of a headless man sitting on a chair on top of a pedestal
Headless man, N.Y.C. 1962
gelatin silver print, 14 x 11 inches (sheet)
Black-and-white photograph of woman carrying a child
Woman carrying a child in Central Park, N.Y.C. 1956
gelatin silver print, 11 x 14 inches (sheet)
Black-and-white photograph of a man with his head facing the opposite way of his body in a room lit by a single lightbulb
The Backwards Man in his hotel room, N.Y.C. 1961
gelatin silver print, 14 x 11 inches (sheet)
Black-and-white photograph of a drive-in theater at nighttime with clouds on screen
Clouds on-screen at a drive-in movie, N.J. 1960
gelatin silver print, 16 x 20 inches (sheet)