New Exhibit Explores Unseen Work of the Iconic Diane Arbus

Courtesy the Estate of Diane Arbus, LLC (Lady on a Bus).

In the mid 1950s, Diane Arbus left her fashion photography business to pursue more intimate, unassuming portraiture. She'd eventually set her gaze on the marginalized -- circus performers, dwarfs, nudists, and trans people -- but before that, she hit the streets, snapping strangers she encountered every day: laughing children, bombshell receptionists, chic mothers in fur and pearls. This work, much of it never before published, has now been gathered in "Diane Arbus: In the Beginning," an exhibit at the Met Breuer, the Metropolitan Museum's new space for contemporary artists. Arriving with it: a monograph of the same name (Yale University Press), with more than 100 images shot by Arbus between 1956 and 1962.

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