Boy with a straw hat waiting to march in a pro-war parade, N.Y.C.

Diane Arbus

1967 · Gelatin silver print · Photographs

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.

Artist

Diane Arbus

Date

1967

Medium

Gelatin silver print

Department

Photographs

Credit line

Gift of Maxime de la Falaise, 1974