[Promotional Flyer for Diane Arbus's Portfolio "A Box of Ten Photographs"]
In 1970 Diane Arbus began work on one of the treasures of post-war American art, a limited-edition portfolio entitled A box of ten photographs. As part of the marketing process she created a promotional flyer including two 35mm contact strips on photographic paper representing each of the prints. These strips were attached to a sheet of paper with a photocopied, typewritten text by Arbus:
"…there is a portfolio of ten photographs by Diane Arbus dating from nineteen sixty-two to nineteen seventy in an edition of fifty, printed, signed, numbered, annotated by the photographer, sixteen by twenty inches in a nearly invisible box which is also a frame, designed by Marvin Israel. Available from Diane Arbus, four sixty-three West Street, New York City, for one thousand dollars."
This particular flyer includes two strips [strip 2, frames 7–11] of the same five prints rather than one strip of each representing all ten prints.
"…there is a portfolio of ten photographs by Diane Arbus dating from nineteen sixty-two to nineteen seventy in an edition of fifty, printed, signed, numbered, annotated by the photographer, sixteen by twenty inches in a nearly invisible box which is also a frame, designed by Marvin Israel. Available from Diane Arbus, four sixty-three West Street, New York City, for one thousand dollars."
This particular flyer includes two strips [strip 2, frames 7–11] of the same five prints rather than one strip of each representing all ten prints.
Artwork Details
- Title: [Promotional Flyer for Diane Arbus's Portfolio "A Box of Ten Photographs"]
- Artist: Diane Arbus (American, New York 1923–1971 New York)
- Date: 1970–71
- Medium: Gelatin silver prints
- Dimensions: Mount: 8 1/2 in. × 11 in. (21.6 × 27.9 cm)
- Classifications: Photographs, Manuscript Materials
- Credit Line: Purchase, Anonymous, Joyce F. Menschel and Marlene Nathan Meyerson Family Foundation Gifts, 2016
- Object Number: 2016.335
- Curatorial Department: Photographs
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