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There is a quite amazing show of photographs by Diane
Arbus at the Lévy Gorvy Gallery,"Diane
Arbus: In the Park"
2 May - 24 June
Lévy Gorvy Gallery
909 Madison Ave. (At 73rd)
Tuesday - Saturday 10-6
This exhibition has a satisfying large number of
wonderful photographs--some familiar, some we'd never seen--taken by Arbus in the 50s and 60s in Central Park and
Washington Square Park. There are two full floors of them (so
do NOT miss the continuation of the show on the third floor).
Here, in her own words, is a description offered by the Gallery:
"... I remember one summer I worked a lot
in Washington Square Park. It must have been about 1966. The park was
divided. It has these walks, sort of like a sunburst, and there were
these territories staked out. There were young hippie junkies down
one row. There were lesbians down another, really tough amazingly
hard-core lesbians. And in the middle were winos. They were like the
first echelon and the girls who came from the Bronx to become hippies
would have to sleep with the winos to get to sit on the other part
with the junkie hippies. It was really remarkable. And I found it
very scary... There were days I just couldn't work there and then
there were days I could.... I got to know a few of them. I hung
around a lot... I was very keen to get close to them, so I had
to ask to photograph them." - Diane Arbus
To provide a small taste of the joys of this
show, here are three images from the Gallery's website from the
scores of images in the show (good ones, but far
from the best; but there is no photography allowed in the show,
so these shall have to do):
A young man and his girlfriend with hot dogs in
the park, NYC. 1971
Gelatin silver print
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