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Lot Essay
BOY WITH A STRAW HAT WAITING TO MARCH IN A PRO-WAR PARADE N.Y.C. 1967 is considered to be one of Diane Arbus' seminal images. She included the photograph in her only portfolio A BOX OF TEN PHOTOGRAPHS, comprised of ten images which she felt best represented her oeuvre, and which she created shortly before her death by suicide in July of 1971.
In May of the same year, BOY WITH A STRAW HAT WAITING TO MARCH IN A PRO-WAR PARADE N.Y.C. 1967 was chosen to be featured on the cover of Artforum magazine due to its social and political zeitgeist. An additional five images from the portfolio were reproduced inside as a picture story with the title "Five photographs by Diane Arbus." The following is an excerpt from Arbus's text that accompanied the photographs:
"Nothing is ever the same as they said it was. It's what I've never seen before that I recognize. Nothing is ever alike. The best thing is the difference. I get to keep what nobody needs. A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know." (As quoted in Artforum, May 1971).
In May of the same year, BOY WITH A STRAW HAT WAITING TO MARCH IN A PRO-WAR PARADE N.Y.C. 1967 was chosen to be featured on the cover of Artforum magazine due to its social and political zeitgeist. An additional five images from the portfolio were reproduced inside as a picture story with the title "Five photographs by Diane Arbus." The following is an excerpt from Arbus's text that accompanied the photographs:
"Nothing is ever the same as they said it was. It's what I've never seen before that I recognize. Nothing is ever alike. The best thing is the difference. I get to keep what nobody needs. A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know." (As quoted in Artforum, May 1971).