a plate from A Box of Ten Photographs (New York, 1970), signed, titled, dated, and editioned '40/50' by Doon Arbus, the photographer's daughter, in ink and with the portfolio and Arbus Estate reproduction rights stamps on the reverse, framed, 1970, printed in the early 1970s by Neil Selkirk

Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, 2006

Palm Beach, Norton Museum of Art, Stare: The Pleasure of the Intensely Familiar and the Strangely Unexpected, December 2010 - March 2011 NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale, Diane Arbus, November 2012 - June 2013

'Five Photographs by Diane Arbus,' Artforum, May 1971, p. 68 Diane Arbus (Aperture, 1972), unpaginated

Diane Arbus: Revelations (New York, 2003), p. 66

This photograph, on double-weight Agfa paper, is in generally very good to excellent condition. Upon very close inspection, the highlights in the lower portion of the image - specifically in the area of the towel - appear very faintly warmer than the rest of the print.
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'For me the subject of the picture is always more important than the picture. And more complicated. . . I really think what it is, is what it’s about. I mean it has to be of something. And what it's of is always more remarkable than what it is.' - Diane Arbus