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Exhibition

Diane Arbus: Family Albums

Diane Arbus: Family Albums

John Pultz, curator

Kress Gallery, Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas

Exhibition images

Works of art

Diane Arbus (1923–1971), Exasperated boy with a toy hand grenade, N.Y.C.

Diane Arbus (1923–1971), Blaze Starr at home

Diane Arbus (1923–1971), Brenda Diana Duff Frazier, 1938 Debutante of the Year, at home

Diane Arbus (1923–1971), Pinkie Edwards, whose nickname is Matilda, warms her feet by an old stove

Diane Arbus (1923–1971), Robert Evans and his family

Diane Arbus (1923–1971), Dr. Donald E. Gatch and Addie Taylor

Diane Arbus (1923–1971), Tokyo Rose at home, Chicago, Illinois

Diane Arbus (1923–1971), Mae West

Diane Arbus (1923–1971), Mrs. Marguerite C. Oswald, mother of Lee Harvey Oswald

Diane Arbus (1923–1971), Marguerite Oswald

Diane Arbus (1923–1971), Bennett Cerf

Diane Arbus (1923–1971), Bennett Cerf

Diane Arbus (1923–1971), Andrew Ratoucheff, actor, 56, in his Manhattan rooming house following a late show performance of his specialty: imitations of Marilyn Monroe, and Maurice Chevalier singing "Valentina."

Diane Arbus (1923–1971), Flora Knapp Dickinson, Honorary Regent of the Washington Heights Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution.

Diane Arbus (1923–1971), Jayne Mansfield Cimber-Ottaviano, actress, with her daughter, Jayne Marie, thirteen

Diane Arbus (1923–1971), Ogden Reid, congressman and millionaire, with his son, Stewart, fifteen

Diane Arbus (1923–1971), Sociologist Jane Jacobs, with her son, Ned, fifteen

Diane Arbus (1923–1971), Richard Lippold, Sculptor, and His Daughter Tina, Eighteen

Diane Arbus (1923–1971), Madalyn Murray in front of her home

Diane Arbus (1923–1971), Madalyn Murray in her bedroom

Diane Arbus (1923–1971), Ricky Nelson and family

Diane Arbus (1923–1971), Ozzie and Harriet Nelson

Diane Arbus (1923–1971), Ozzie and Harriet Nelson on their lawn, L.A., CA

Diane Arbus (1923–1971), Their numbers were picked out of a hat. They were just chosen King and Queen of a Senior Citizens dance in NYC. Yetta Granat is 72 and Charles Fahrer is 79. They have never met.

Diane Arbus (1923–1971), untitled (Marguerite C. Oswald)

Diane Arbus (1923–1971), untitled (Marguerite C. Oswald)

Diane Arbus (1923–1971), untitled (Marguerite C. Oswald)

Diane Arbus (1923–1971), untitled (Marguerite C. Oswald)

Diane Arbus (1923–1971), untitled (Madalyn Murray)

Diane Arbus (1923–1971), untitled (Madalyn Murray)

Diane Arbus (1923–1971), untitled (Bennett Cerf)

Diane Arbus (1923–1971), untitled (Bennett Cerf)

Diane Arbus (1923–1971), untitled (Bennett Cerf)

Diane Arbus (1923–1971), untitled (Bennett Cerf)

Diane Arbus (1923–1971), untitled (Bennett Cerf)

Diane Arbus (1923–1971), untitled (Bennett Cerf)

Diane Arbus (1923–1971), untitled (Bennett Cerf)

Diane Arbus (1923–1971), untitled (Bennett Cerf)

Diane Arbus (1923–1971), untitled (Bennett Cerf)

Diane Arbus (1923–1971), untitled (Bennett Cerf)

Diane Arbus (1923–1971), untitled (Bennett Cerf)

Diane Arbus (1923–1971), untitled (Ozzie and Harriet Nelson)

Diane Arbus (1923–1971), untitled (Ozzie and Harriet Nelson)

Diane Arbus (1923–1971), untitled (Ozzie and Harriet Nelson)

Diane Arbus (1923–1971), untitled (Ozzie and Harriet Nelson)

Diane Arbus (1923–1971), untitled (Ozzie and Harriet Nelson)

Diane Arbus (1923–1971), untitled

Diane Arbus (1923–1971), untitled

Diane Arbus (1923–1971), untitled

Diane Arbus (1923–1971), untitled

Diane Arbus (1923–1971), untitled

Diane Arbus (1923–1971), untitled

Diane Arbus (1923–1971), untitled

Diane Arbus (1923–1971); Neil Selkirk (born 1947), untitled (No. 7)

Diane Arbus (1923–1971); Neil Selkirk (born 1947), Petal Pink for Little Parties, White-Over-Pale for Parties

Diane Arbus (1923–1971); Neil Selkirk (born 1947), Lillian and Dorothy Gish, eleventh-generation Americans and renowned film stars of Orphans of the Storm and Way Down East

Diane Arbus (1923–1971); Neil Selkirk (born 1947), Mr. and Mrs. Santa Claus

Diane Arbus (1923–1971); Neil Selkirk (born 1947), Mrs. T. Charlton Henry

Diane Arbus (1923–1971); Neil Selkirk (born 1947), Anderson Hays Cooper, son of Gloria Vanderbilt and Wyatt Cooper

Diane Arbus (1923–1971); Neil Selkirk (born 1947), Feminist group

Diane Arbus (1923–1971); Neil Selkirk (born 1947); Doon Arbus (born 1945), untitled (children under coat)

Diane Arbus (1923–1971); Neil Selkirk (born 1947); Doon Arbus (born 1945), Campers at Camp Lakecrest for overweight girls, Dutchess County, New York

Diane Arbus (1923–1971); Neil Selkirk (born 1947), Norman Mailer

Diane Arbus (1923–1971); Neil Selkirk (born 1947); Doon Arbus (born 1945), Marcel Duchamp and his wife, Alexina Sattler

Diane Arbus (1923–1971), untitled

Diane Arbus (1923–1971), untitled

Events

September 30, 2004

Talk

Professor Laura Wexler on Making Arbus Strange: History, Time, and Memory in the Arbus Archive

5:30–6:30PM

309 Auditorium

October 21, 2004

Talk

Photographer Tina Barney on her work

7:00–8:00PM

309 Auditorium

October 28, 2004

Screening

The Royal Tenenbaums

7:00–8:50PM

309 Auditorium

November 4, 2004

Talk

Curator John Pultz

12:15–1:15PM

Gallery 407

November 4, 2004

Screening

The Ice Storm

7:00–8:50PM

309 Auditorium

November 5, 2004

Talk

Family, Politics, and Photography of the 1960s.

10:00AM–12:30PM

Gallery 407

November 11, 2004

Talk

Trudy Wilner Stack on Fear and Loving: Arbus and Winogrand's New America

5:30–6:30PM

309 Auditorium

November 18, 2004

Talk

Professor Anthony Lee on Arbus, Fashion, and the Grotesque

7:00–8:00PM

309 Auditorium

December 4, 2004

Workshop

Family Photo Albums

10:30AM–12:30PM

Gallery 317 Central Court

December 4, 2004

Workshop

Family Photo Albums

1:30–3:30PM

Gallery 317 Central Court

December 9, 2004

Screening

Ordinary People

7:00–9:00PM

309 Auditorium

November 30, 2005

Talk

Professor Laura Wexler on Making Arbus Strange: History, Time, and Memory in the Arbus Archive

5:30–6:30PM

309 Auditorium

Resources

Documents

Media Coverage