Untitled (6)
Photograph
Untitled (6)
1970–71
Gelatin silver print
Image: 15 7/8 × 15 3/16 in. (40.4 × 38.5 cm)
Paper: 19 7/8 × 15 15/16 in. (50.5 × 40.5 cm)
Matted: 28 × 22 in. (71.1 × 55.9 cm)
Purchase with funds from the Intrepid Fund
1984.0260.0001
Inscriptions Stamped in black ink on verso TLC: Not to be reproduced in any way without \ written permission from Doon Arbus.
Inscribed in black ink on versoTR: #6667-2-IV-1620
Signature inscribed in black ink TLC: Doon Arbus
Stamped in black ink on verso TLC: a diane arbus print doon arbus administrator
Inscribed in pencil on verso: DA.230.Y
Inscribed in black ink on versoTR: #6667-2-IV-1620
Signature inscribed in black ink TLC: Doon Arbus
Stamped in black ink on verso TLC: a diane arbus print doon arbus administrator
Inscribed in pencil on verso: DA.230.Y
TextUnlike documentary photographers of the 1930s and 1940s who sought to show injustices and invite change, the 1960s generation tended toward more personal concerns, often relating to the status of the individual in America’s postwar consumer society. A 1967 exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art called New Documents demonstrated this shift. The exhibition included works by Diane Arbus, Lee Friedlander, and Garry Winogrand. These “new documents” were more aesthetically driven than politically charged. Arbus’s work focused on people outside of the mainstream, such as the people with intellectual disabilities seen in this photograph.
