- Artist/Maker:
- Diane Arbus
- Bio:
- American, 1923-1971
- Printer:
- Neil Selkirk
- Title:
- A Jewish Giant at Home with His Parents, in the Bronx, N.Y.
- Portfolio/Series:
- A Box of Ten Photographs
- Date:
- 1970
- Medium:
- Gelatin silver print
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 19 7/8 × 16 in. (50.5 × 40.6 cm) Image: 15 × 15 in. (38.1 × 38.1 cm)
- Credit Line:
- Purchase: Photography Acquisition Committee Fund and the Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation Fund
- Accession Number:
- 1999-3
Not On View
Jewish Giant is typical of Diane Arbus's frank, objective, and even disarming approach to her subjects. The inherently voyeuristic aspect of her photographs often reveal people ill at ease, looking awkward. This degree of vulnerability, however, permitted the photographer to identify with her subjects, as it mirrored her own self-doubt and questioning.
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