Boy with a straw hat waiting to march in a pro-war parade, N.Y.C.
Arbus is one of the most influential portrait photographers of the last half-century. Her lacerating matter-of-fact pictures of the normal and the marginal in American society have forever altered our expectations of photographic portraits. Arbus refrained from any explicit social commentary (she photographed rallies for and against war), but this powerful image, made when the most intense protests about America's role in Vietnam were taking place, presents a disturbing image about children and war.
Artwork Details
- Title: Boy with a straw hat waiting to march in a pro-war parade, N.Y.C.
- Artist: Diane Arbus (American, New York 1923–1971 New York)
- Date: 1967
- Medium: Gelatin silver print
- Dimensions: 50.8 x 40.8 cm (20 x 16 1/16 in.)
- Classification: Photographs
- Credit Line: Gift of Maxime de la Falaise, 1974
- Object Number: 1974.538
- Rights and Reproduction: © The Estate of Diane Arbus
- Curatorial Department: Photographs
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