Diane Arbus: Photographs, 1956–1971

Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto

NOW CLOSED

Puerto Rican woman with a beauty mark, N.Y.C. (detail; 1965), Diane Arbus. Photo: Ian Lefebvre; © Estate of Diane Arbus

With an eye that captured the uncanny in the everyday, the American photographer documented the broad sweep of life in New York in the 1950s and ’60s. This exhibition of 150 black-and-white portraits is drawn from the landmark acquisition of 522 works donated to the Art Gallery of Ontario in 2016. Find out more from the AGO’s website.

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Three female impersonators, N.Y.C., 1962 (1962–63), Diane Arbus. Photo: Ian Lefebvre; © Estate of Diane Arbus

A very young baby, N.Y.C., 1968 [Anderson Hays Cooper] (1968), Diane Arbus.

A very young baby, N.Y.C. [Anderson Hays Cooper] (1968), Diane Arbus. Photo: Ian Lefebvre; © Estate of Diane Arbus

Mrs. Martin Luther King, Jr. on her front lawn, Atlanta, Ga., 1968 (1968), Diane Arbus.

Mrs. Martin Luther King, Jr. on her front lawn, Atlanta, Ga. (1968), Diane Arbus. Photo: Ian Lefebvre; © Estate of Diane Arbus

Two girls on the beach, Coney Island, N.Y.C

Two girls on the beach, Coney Island, N.Y.C. (1958), Diane Arbus. Photo: Ian Lefebvre; © Estate of Diane Arbus

Puerto Rican woman with a beauty mark, N.Y.C. (1965), Diane Arbus.

Puerto Rican woman with a beauty mark, N.Y.C. (1965), Diane Arbus. Photo: Ian Lefebvre; © Estate of Diane Arbus