拍品 70

£ROPERTY OF JAY GOLD In the 1967 exhibition New Documents at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, John Szarkowski, the curator, examined a key shift that had occurred in American photography in the mid-1960s. He chose to present the work of only three photographers as representative of their generation; Lee Friedlander, Garry Winogrand and Diane Arbus. The current lot is the print of Diane Arbus' A Family One Evening at a Nudist Camp, Pa. 1965 that was included among the thirty-two photographs by Arbus shown in the first room of the exhibition. In the wall label for the exhibition Szarkowski wrote: "In the past decade a new generation of photographers has directed the documentary approach toward more personal ends. Their aim has been not to reform life, but to know it. Their work betrays a sympathy -- almost an affection -- for the imperfection and frailties of society. ... What they [the three photographers] hold in common is the belief that the commonplace is really worth looking at, and the courage to look at it with a minimum of theorizing." The New Documents exhibition was enormously important for having presented in a prestigious setting the work of the three photographers who would arguably have the most influence on the development of photography over the next decade. The importance of the New Documents exhibition continues to become increasingly evident by two major career retrospective exhibitions which have recently been mounted; Friedlander currently at the Museum of Modern Art, New York; and Diane Arbus Revelations that opened at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and is currently touring the United States and Europe. This is the print that hangs in the installation view of the New Documents exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in 1967, reproduced on the inside front cover of this catalogue. Jay Gold was an attorney in New York and a longtime friend of Marvin Israel, through whom he met Diane Arbus. In late 1970/early 1971, after working for several years in civil service, Gold opened his own private legal practice in New York. Around the same time, Diane Arbus bought a used car that she quickly realized had something wrong with it. She asked the man who had sold her the car to repair it, and he refused. She then turned to Gold, who sent a letter to the car dealer on her behalf, which proved to be successful in rectifying the situation, as the car was subsequently repaired immediately. As a gesture of her appreciation, Arbus gave Gold this print, which has since remained in his possession. The Museum of Modern Art's accession number of 67.139, written in pencil on the verso of the flush mount, has been cross referenced and confirmed to match the Museum's original checklist for the NEW DOCUMENTS exhibition.

DIANE ARBUS (1923-1971)

A family one evening in a nudist camp, Pa., 1965

細節

DIANE ARBUS (1923-1971)
A family one evening in a nudist camp, Pa., 1965
gelatin silver print
signed and inscribed 'for Jay' in ink (in the margin); MoMA accession number '67.139' in pencil (on the reverse of the flush-mount)
13¾ x 13 5/8in. (34.9 x 34.6cm.)

來源

From the artist;
to the present owner

出版

Diane Arbus, Aperture, 1972, n.p.; Diane Arbus: Magazine Work, Aperture, 1984, p. 68; Diane Arbus Revelations, Random House, 2003, p. 295