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NY Museum Receives Complete Diane Arbus Archives

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Dec 18, 2007 8:00 am US/Central

NY Museum Receives Complete Diane Arbus Archives

  The estate of Diane Arbus has presented the photographer's complete archives to the Metropolitan Museum of Art as a gift.

The archives include hundreds of photographs; negatives and prints of 7,500 rolls of film; hundreds of glassine print sleeves; pages from her diaries; books from her home and studio; and family pictures.

The museum has also purchased 20 of her most famous photographs from the Fraenkel Gallery in San Francisco, which represents her estate.

Arbus is best known for her often disturbing 1960s photographs of people on the outskirts of society, such as transvestites, dwarfs and the mentally handicapped. A retrospective of her work, called "Revelations," toured the U.S. from 2003 to 2005.

Arbus committed suicide in 1971.

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