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A Box of Ten Photographs is a 1970–1973 limited edition printing in gelatin silver of a portfolio of ten monochrome photographs taken by Diane Arbus between 1962 and 1970, each set presented in a Plexiglas box. The portfolio was important in recognition of photography as an art form.

Arbus herself printed between eight and twelve sets before her death in 1971, of which four had been numbered and sold. The edition of 50 was completed in 1973 by Neil Selkirk, whose sets were made with Arbus' equipment and process. Selkirk set number 15 sold for $1,008,000 in 2023; lifetime Arbus prints sell for much more than posthumous Selkirk ones.

Background

Arbus began her career in 1946 by assisting her husband, Allan Arbus, in fashion and magazine photography. In 1956 she began working independently, doing portrait and magazine work on commission and documentary work on spec, using 35 mm single-lens reflex and rangefinder cameras. In 1962–1963, she switched to higher-definition 120 film taking square-format (6×6 [cm] or 2¼ [inch]) negatives using twin-lens reflex (TLR) cameras: initially a wide-angle Rolleiflex, later also a Mamiyaflex with flash. Interest in Arbus's work among critics and, to a lesser extent, collectors was fanned in the spring of 1967 by New Documents 1967, a joint exhibition with Lee Friedlander and Garry Winogrand at New York's Museum of Modern Art (MoMA). In 1968 she started planning to take pictures for a longterm "Family Album" project. In 1970 she sought ways to raise the money to purchase a Pentax 6×7 camera.

The photographs

The idea of selling a portfolio was suggested to Arbus by Marvin Israel in the fall of 1969. All the ten pictures Arbus selected had been taken with a TLR camera in the New York metropolitan area. Some had been previously exhibited or published, including at New Documents 1967 or the London Sunday Times magazine of 10 November 1968.

Some critics have compared the collection to a family album. However, the 2003–2004 Family Albums exhibition, focused on Arbus's pictures of Gay and Konrad Matthaei's 1969 family gathering, discusses her desire to create a "family album" without alluding to the Box.

The most notable picture omitted from the set is Child with Toy Hand Grenade in Central Park. The prints were on Agfa paper measuring 16 by 20 inches (410 mm × 510 mm), with a square image measuring about 15 by 15 inches (380 mm × 380 mm). The film carrier of Arbus' darkroom enlarger had a square opening, around the edges of which she placed torn cardboard strips to create a thin fuzzy border for the projected image. Descriptions are handwritten on the back of each print, and on sheets of vellum interleaved between the prints. The descriptions are fuller in some sets than others. Each set is presented in a Plexiglas box designed by Israel with technical help from Richard Avedon's assistant Gideon Lewin. Arbus described the box as "nearly invisible" and "almost like ice". As well as secure storage, it could be used as a frame for the topmost image. Similar simple frame designs became common in photography galleries in the 1970s. Arbus' asking price was $1,000, a "somewhat outrageous amount" at the time. She also offered individual prints at $150.

'Arbus didn’t intend for her “box of ten photographs” to be a quintessential set. ... her key motivations were income and to establish a stable stylistic identity.'

Mario Naves calls the images a "veritable greatest hits of [Arbus's] imagery and motifs". "The titles of Diane Arbus’s photographs read like short stories."

"The Artforum photographs are notable for the titles she gives them. They are more descriptive and sympathetic to the individuals photographed than the titles given to the same photographs in the 1972 Diane Arbus monograph."

Images in A Box of Ten Photographs

Title	Taken	Notes	Index	Refs
Patriotic boy with straw hat; buttons and flag, waiting to march in a pro-war parade, N.Y.C. 1967	13 May 1967	In what was described as "a rebuttal to anti-war demonstrations", a crowd of at least 70,000 demonstrators marched down Fifth Avenue in support of American troops fighting in the Vietnam War. The cover of Artforum May 1971. A print made before the portfolio sold for zzz in zzz.
Retired man and his wife at home in a nudist camp one morning in N.J. 1963. On the television set are framed photographs of each other	July 1963	Taken in Sunshine Park, Mays Landing, New Jersey. From "Notes on the Nudist Camp", an unpublished Esquire assignment. Arbus sometimes went nude while photographing in nudist camps. Included in New Documents 1967.
Xmas Tree in a Living Room in Levittown, Long Island	Christmas 1962/3	The Yale and V&A catalogs give the location as Levittown, New Jersey rather than Levittown, Long Island. Included in New Documents 1967. The only one of the ten images with no people in frame.	#1630-1
A young man in curlers at home on West 20th Street, N.Y.C	1966	Also called Young Man in Curlers Dressing for an Annual Drag Ball. Included in New Documents 1967	#4642-1
Lauro Morales, a Mexican dwarf, in his hotel room in N.Y.C. 1970	24 March 1970	Arbus photographed Morales in 1957 as "Cha Cha Cha", a clown at Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus. Other shots from the 1970 set reveal that his is naked.
Their Numbers were Picked out of a Hat. They Were Just Chosen King and Queen of a Senior Citizens' Dance in N.Y.C. Yetta Grant is 72 and Charles Fahrer is 79. They Have Never Met Before.	22 May 1970	From "The Last of Life...", Esquire, May 1971, p. 11
A Young Family in Brooklyn Going for a Sunday Outing. Their Baby is Named Dawn. Their Son Is Retarded.	15 May 1966	Richard and Marylin [sic] Dauria with two of their three children, Richard Jnr and Dawn. Arbus also photographed the family in their home, which was in the Bronx, though Marylin was from Brooklyn. Sunday Outing was published in the Sunday Times magazine. John Waters' 1974 film Female Trouble referenced the mother's bouffant hairstyle, the name Dawn, and the slur "retarded".
Identical Twins, Roselle, New Jersey, 1967	11 December 1966	Also captioned Cathleen (left) and Colleen, Members of a Twin Club. Despite the year 1967 in the picture's usual title, it was taken at a Christmas party in December 1966. Included in New Documents 1967. Inspired Stanley Kubrick's shot of twin girls in The Shining. "Only 3 (including this print) of the 9 lifetime prints of [Identical Twins] to have been offered previously [to 2007] at auction have been signed by the artist. An additional print has been titled and dated only."	#4539-14
This is Eddie Carmel, a Jewish giant, with his parents in the living room of their home in the Bronx, N.Y. 1970	10 April 1970	Arbus first photographed Carmel in 1960 at Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus. The 1970 image has corner vignetting and deep shadows, features typically considered undesirable in conventional portraits. The picture was later reproduced in Time, Life, and Newsweek. Jerome Charyn's 2015 short story "Dee" is based on Arbus' photographing of Carmel.	#6882-??
A Family on their Lawn One Sunday in Westchester, New York	16 June 1968	Published in the Sunday Times magazine. The subjects are record producer Nat Tarnopol, his wife June and their four-year-old son Paul. Their other two children are in other shots from the same set. Arbus wrote, "I think it's such an odd photograph, nearly like Pinter, but not quite... the parents seem to be dreaming the child and the child seems to be inventing them". also published in a 1969 Horizon piece on "Leisure".	#5704-4

Include the two 11th photos here as well as in the list of sets.

The box sets

Henry Geldzahler, curator at MoMA, convinced Philip Leider to view Arbus's box. Leider was so impressed that he made Arbus the first photographer discussed in Artforum, where "Five Photographs by Diane Arbus" was the cover article in May 1971. Leider initially wanted to include all ten images, eventually settling for six: Pro-war demonstrator as the cover; and Twins, Giant, Xmas Tree, Family walking, Dwarf, each on a separate page with caption; the five preceded by a page with 'Arbus’s "poetic and gnomic" text—five short standalone paragraphs'. The article omitted to mention the portfolio's availability for sale, and in recompense Leider gave Arbus a free full-page advertisement in the next issue. The portfolio was the subject of an article in the 31 May 1971 issue of New York magazine (one reproduction) and another in the October 1972 edition of Ms. (seven reproductions).

Before she died Arbus had sold four sets and printed four more, which her daughter and executor Doon Arbus posthumously redesignated artist's proofs. The proof sets lack the vellum overlays of the sold copies. In 1973 Arbus' family authorized Neil Selkirk to print 46 more sets to bring the edition up to the intended number of fifty. "Vintage" or "lifetime" prints made by Arbus sell for significantly more than Selkirk's posthumous prints.

"At least fifteen of the portfolios have been broken up and sold separately".

Since lifetime sales were numbered 1, 2, 5, and 6, I wonder if numbers 3 and 4 were redesignated proofs, in which case maybe Selkirk skipped those numbers, in which case maybe there are only 48 numbered and 4 proofs in the edition. But if there really are two numbered 5, the maybe there are also two numbered 6: if Doon Arbus and Neil Selkirk mistakenly assumed that Feitler's and Johns' were numbered 3 and 4 and thus Selkirk's numbers started from 5. A note in a 2006 Sotheby's auction catalogue says Selkirk made 45 prints.

Revelations says:

Diane Arbus completed the prints for eleven or twelve sets of the portfolio but did not sign them or prepare the individual title sheets until the sets had been sold. After her death, the remaining sets were designated by The Estate of Diane Arbus, on the advice of Marvin Israel and others, as artist's proofs. One was given by Doon and Amy Arbus to Allan Arbus as Diane had intended. One was purchased by the Fogg Art Museum in 1972. It remains unclear what happened to the two sets that would have been numbered 3/50 and 4/50. The probability is that they were set aside in anticipation of sales to specific purchasers that subsequently fell through and are included among the sets of artist’s proofs.

But "eleven or twelve sets" total implies 7 or 8 artist's proofs, whereas other source (which?) said eight total, four proofs. Maybe the difference is the one side misinterpreted whether eight is the total printed or total unsold.

WestLicht 2014:

It is known that Arbus printed eleven or twelve of the limited-edition boxes herself shortly before she died in 1971. However, she only sold a handful of the boxes during her lifetime, some of them to renowned collectors: 1/50 and 2/50 to Richard Avedon (one of them acquired as a present for his friend Mike Nichols), 6/50 to Jasper Johns, 5/50 to Bea Feitler, the art director of Harper’s Bazaar, while 3/50 and 4/50 are considered "lost" but sold (cf. Diane Arbus, Revelations, p. 220). After Arbus's death, the sets printed by her so far were kept as artist's proofs. Neil Selkirk completed the edition of 50 — or rather, after Arbus's death and with his prints, the numbering was started anew at 1/50.

Reference to p. 220 suggests the author had not read the notes, so the idea that Selkirk started anew at 1 needs more evidence. Also, p. 220 suggests that Avedon gave no. 1 to Nichols and kept no. 2 whereas [one of?] my refs show the opposite. Hopefully Arbus and Jacob 2018 can settle the question.

"At Sotheby's, the top lot was a Diane Arbus portfolio, one of only six printed by Arbus herself before her death" (possibly based on number 1,2,5,6?). ArtNews 2005 days 12 lifetime [ref Revelations), had other good info. Recent sources have 8 total. Christie's 1999 auction of set 22 says "Number 22 from the limited edition of 50, plus five uneditioned artist's proofs".

An example of the handwritten titles under the printed image, and the boilerplate and sequence information on the verso of the print, is on the American Art Collaborative website (using the Senior Citizens Dance print from set 39). Another, from the 2014 5/50 sale, is at luminous-lint.com.

List

Sets of A Box of Ten Photographs

Number	Owner	Provenance and notes	Ref
1/50 (lifetime)	Glenstone from Pier 24 Photography	Bought from Arbus by Richard Avedon, who Jeffrey Fraenkel said kept the box under his bed. Bought for Pier 24, San Francisco, at Avedon's 2004 estate sale. Glenstone to purchase when Pier 24 closes in 2025. Includes an eleventh print, At a Halloween party for mentally retarded women, a lady in a wheelchair, masked, 1969.
2/50 (lifetime)	privately held	Bought from Arbus by Richard Avedon as a gift for Mike Nichols
5/50 (lifetime)	Smithsonian American Art Museum	Bought from Arbus by Bea Feitler; bought at Feitler's estate sale [Sotheby's 11 May 1983] by George H. Dalsheimer for $42,900 [$39,000 net]; purchased by the Smithsonian in 1986. Includes an eleventh print, A woman with her baby monkey, N.J. 1971. As of 2018, this is the only one of the four sets signed by Arbus that is publicly owned.
6/50 (lifetime)	privately held	Bought by Jasper Johns. Dealer Irving Blum said he sold it to Johns on consignment from Arbus, whereas Johns said he bought it direct from Arbus after seeing her ad in Artforum
proof (lifetime)	Tate Modern/Scottish National Gallery	acquired "recently" to 2001 by Fraenkel Gallery from Allan Arbus, Diane Arbus's ex-husband. In 2005 Fraenkel sold it to Anthony d'Offay. In February 2008 it was part of Artist Rooms, a collection of 725 works sold by d'Offay to the English and Scottish public galleries at cost price of £26,530,219 rather than the estimated value of £125m.
proof (lifetime)	Harvard Art Museums	In spring 1971 Harvard's Fogg Art Museum borrowed seven Arbus prints, four of them from a new Box, for its Contemporary Photographs I exhibition. Its plan to buy the prints fell through when National Endowment for the Arts funding was delayed. After Arbus' death, the funding arrived and the Fogg bought a complete Box for $1000 in 1972.
two other proof lifetime sets	privately held	Ault mistakenly ascribes one of these to Pier 24, which actually owned set 1/50.
5/50 (posthumous)	split	Identical Twins, Senior Citizens Dance, Brookyln Couple, and Mexican dwarf (all from Pentax Collection, Japan) sold 22 Nov 2014 at WestLicht, Vienna
7/50		Sold for $50,000 Sotheby's New York 7 October 1993.
8/50	Museum of Fine Arts, Houston	The MFAH completed its set in 2018 with eight acquisitions from Gay Block, who had previously donated one in 2014 [3] and sold one in 2004 [4] consigned to [Lee D.] Witkin Gallery, New York; purchased by Harry Lunn, 1972; Jo Tartt, late 1970s; Gay Block, 1986
9/50	split	Jewish giant, Young Brooklyn family, and Xmas tree were auctioned at Sotheby's in 2021 by an owner gifted them in the late 1970s
10/50	Worcester Art Museum	Donated (1974?) by Hall James Peterson and his wife, Kate Butler Peterson, of Petersham, Massachusetts.
12/50	split	Retired man and his wife and Jewish giant sold Christies 9 Jun 1999. Boy with a straw hat sold Christies 29 Sep 2014
14/50	split	Young man in curlers; Xmas tree; Retired man; identical twins offered 2 Oct 1996 at Sotheby's New York Sold 1997 by Fraenkel to Chara Schreyer; 7 withdrawn from sale Sotheby's New York 2023-11-15 est. 300-500K.
15/50		Private collection France 1974 Sold for $405,500 ($360,000 net, triple the estimate) on 18 October 2003 at Phillips NY, interest helped by the SFMOMA retrospective. 2003 buyer? sold at Christies 15 may 2023; estimate 900k-1.2m made record 1.008m
16/50	Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College	1974 Purchase, Louise Woodruff Johnston, class of 1922, Fund
17/50	Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin	Purchased 1974
18/50	Victoria and Albert Museum	Acquired from The Photographers Gallery Limited, London in 1974.
19/50	split	Boy waiting to march in a pro-war parade sold 18 Oct 2007 Christies. Identical Twins sold 16 April 2020 Phillips. Young Man in Curlers sold 4 Oct 1994 Christies
20/50	Yale University Art Gallery	purchased 1974
22/50		Sold $90,500 Christies 5 Oct 1999
23/50		Sold for $553,600 on 27 April 2005 at Sotheby's.
25/50		Sold for $792,500 on 6 April 2018 at Christie's; previous owner (Yamakawa Collection) bought at Sotheby's 2 November 1987
26/50	split?	Xmas Tree bought 1995 by Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Brookyln family sold at Doyle's in 2023.
27/50	split	young Brooklyn family sold 5 April 2005, and 10 Apr 2008 Christie's
33/50	split	Nudist couple acquired by Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg 1980; Jewish giant.. auctioned at Sotheby's in 2018 from the estate of Leland Hirsch, who bought it at Christie's 17 Oct 2006; prev sold at Sotheby's 28 April 2004 Xmas tree sold at Sotheby's 8 April 2008 by private owner who bought from Lunn Gallery in 1978 senior citizens dance sold at Sotheby's 17 October 2003 by private owner who bought from Lunn Gallery in 1978 Young man in curlers sold at Bukowskis Stockholm autumn 2008 for SEK 600,000
34/50	split	Jewish giant.. sold at Christies 3 October 2013, acquired 1979 by the Yarlow/Salzman Gallery, Toronto
35/50	J. Paul Getty Museum	acquired 2000?
36/50	split	Set sold Sothebys 1 November 1988 $12,100. Family Westchester sold Christies 6 October 1995 for $4200. Xmas Tree sold Sotheby's 3 April 2016 by Fraenkel. Jewish giant and Young Brooklyn family for sale 6 December 2022 by Leslie Hindman Auctioneers
37/50	split	a family on their lawn one sunday sold at Sothebys 17 October 2003 by private owner who bought from Lunn Gallery in 1978. Jewish giant sold 9 April 2011 Phillips from Looking Glass Gallery, Michigan
38/50	split	king and queen sold Phillips 17 Oct 2007
39/50	Princeton Art Museum
40/50	split	Mexican dwarf.. auctioned at Sotheby's in 2018 from the estate of Leland Hirsch, who bought from the Fraenkel in 2006. Retired man and his wife Phillips 18 November 2014 by Robert Miller Gallery Jewish giant Christies 12 Nov 2015 by Fraenkel King and Queen withdrawn 20 May 2021 Seven prints (including Mexican dwarf and Jewish giant but not Retired man and his wife) sold 11 October 2005 at Sothebys from a private collection [probably bought by Fraenkel], previously (to 1985) Yajima/Galerie and Charles Gagnon, Montreal, and (1975) Witkin Gallery, New York
41/50	split	Denver Art Museum has Identical Twins purchased 1975; Blomqvist Oslo failed to sell Mexican Dwarf in March 2017.
45/50		Sold for $47,500 at Sothebys on 25 April 1990, and for $58,000 at Christie's Los Angeles 26 June 1997. Unsold [lot 138] 3 April 2012.
47/50	split	Senior Citizens Dance printed 1978 and bought by Centre Pompidou in 1979 Identical Twins offered by Atlas Gallery at Art Basel Hong Kong 2015 Xmas tree Sotheby's 17 October 2003 (private seller from Lunn Gallery 1978) Jewish Giant unsold [lot 75] 29 June 2021 Mexican Dwarf unsold [lot 1338] 6 June 2018
48/50	split	Xmas tree and Nudist couple printed 1978 and bought by Centre Pompidou in 1979 Mexican Dwarf and Senior Citizens Dance in Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg since 1980. A Family on their lawn one Sunday in Westchester, N.Y. sold Christie's New York 5 April 2013 Jewish giant sold Phillips (Private Collection, New York; Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York, 1989) 8 Oct 2015 Identical Twins gifted to the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in 2011.
49/50	split	The complete box was sold 6 May 1987 at Sothebys NY to Fraenkel for $14000. Retired man and his wife sold Sothebys 2009 Young man in curlers unsold [lot 79] 16 May 2009
posthumous	San Francisco Museum of Modern Art	Acquired the set by 1982; Gift of Margery Mann. Also has a 1963 print of Xmas Tree via a 2003 donation.
posthumous	High Museum of Art	Purchased 1974
posthumous	Minneapolis Institute of Art	Purchased 1972
posthumous	Albin O. Kuhn Library & Gallery, University of Maryland, Baltimore County	call number suggests acquired 1975, but Arbus photos in collection in 1974, so maybe only catalogued in 1975 but donated 1973 by Edward L. Bafford.
posthumous	Library of Congress	"Print by Neil Selkirk, Feb. 1973."
posthumous	New Orleans Museum of Art	Acquired 1973.
posthumous	Center for Creative Photography	acquired in 1976
posthumous	Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam	Acquired 1974 by Edy de Wilde

Ersatz sets

• Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles acquired all 10 (posthumous) in 1995 among 60 Arbus prints in a $1.1m 2,100-print purchase from Robert Freidus; They are not all from a single Box set: MOCA's Xmas Tree is from set 26, but Brooklyn family from set 26 was sold by Doyle's in 2023.
• LUMA Arles had a 2021–2022 exhibition "The Hidden Side of the Archive", including Diane Arbus; A box of ten photographs, 1970, suggesting it has a set in its archive. (I think the sentence "In parallel, LUMA is honoured to host the personal and obsessive archives of Hans-Ulrich Obrist in the context of an inspiring and moving presentation dedicated to Édouard Glissant" suggests Obrist lent Glissant material, but had nothing to do with the Arbus material.) But "In 2011 LUMA acquired [Neil] Selkirk’s set of printer’s proofs" so maybe it constructed an artificial set from those? "No less than 454 prints, made from 1945 to 1971 ... At the center of the exhibition, her “Box of Ten”".
• Metropolitan Museum of Art New York catalog does not have a box set, but has prints of all ten images, plus one copy of the promotional flyer (which has two strips of the same five images instead of showing all ten). The last three prints of the ten were among 20 Arbus prints purchased in 2007 at the same time as Doon and Amy donated their mother's archives to the Met. Some of the prints have the black border instead of the Box's fuzzy border. At In the Beginning in the Met Breuer the nine prints other than Xmas Tree were combined with "Title Sheet for the Portfolio ... in original acrylic portfolio box" (a "promised gift") to simulate a set. When In the Beginning went to the Hayward Gallery, the adjacent box of ten was the V&A set, not the MoMA ersatz set of the Met Breuer show. At MALBA it was the SFMOMA set; presumably also true at SFMOMA; it certainly included some set. (Those were the only four venues for the show.)

Possible other sets

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• Eskenazi Museum of Art at Indiana University Bloomington seems to have acquired A Family on Their Lawn from a box set in 1981. Possibly they have the full set but the rest is not in their online list.
• International Center of Photography, New York City, had 10 Arbus photographs in 1982. Possibly one box set? The online catalog has only one of box of ten, which is also only one with pre-1982 accession year (1974).
• Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, purchased 522 prints in 2017 via the Fraenkel Gallery; may have an ersatz set.

Probably not

Those listed in various places as having significant Arbus collections, but whose catalogs show no evidence of a box set, or contrary evidence (e.g. some prints, of smaller size)

• A 2018 Christie's catalog suggests that a complete set is owned by Niedersächsisches Landesmuseum. No other evidence found. Maybe confused with Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg, though that has only a few and from varying sets.
• MoMA catalog shows nothing at all!? but 'MoMA first showed three of Arbus’ portraits in 1965, as part of a “Recent Acquisitions” show. Two of the photos were of female impersonators, one was of a nudist family.' And sold a vintage print of Identical Twins in 1994.
• National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, seem to have purchased 2 lifetime 14×14 in 1970 and 1974, and 7 posthumous 15x15 in 1977.
• National Gallery of Art, Washington DC
• Bibliothèque nationale de France has some earlier printings
• none in Texas in 1987
• Moderna Museet Stockholm acquired 10 prints in 1978 but none were Box images.
• Art Institute of Chicago
• Fotomuseum Winterthur
• Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
• Whitney Museum, New York City
• National Gallery of Australia, Canberra; acquired 36 prints, including 7 of the 10 from the Box, in 1980 via Robert Miller; Xmas Tree is smaller size, all apparently lifetime prints.
• Lee D. Witkin lent Patricia Bosworth a set for her 1984 biography of Arbus.

Afterlife

Doon Arbus lent a proof set to Walter Hopps for the 36th Venice Biennale in 1972; Hilton Kramer said the "portfolio of 10 enormous photographs" was "the overwhelming sensation of the American Pavilion". Later in 1972, John Szarkowski curated a 125-print Arbus retrospective, which opened at MoMA before touring North America until 1975; it did not feature the Box as such but did include a print of each of the 10 pictures. The 1972 Aperture monograph Diane Arbus includes all ten Box images among those reproduced, and the brief biography says "In 1970, she made a portfolio of ten of her photographs which was to be the first of a series of limited editions of her work."

Doon Arbus has kept right control of her mothers legacy, limiting prints and reproductions, and access to unpublished works. Posthumous prints by Selkirk are sold by the estate to dealer-galleries (Harry Lunn; Lee Witkin; ...?) and by them via aftermarket to museums and private collectors. The posthumous sets were all sold by 1979, the year Fraenkel Gallery opened, which has handled many subsequent transactions.

Jewish Giant and young Brooklyn family were included in a 75-image Arbus exhibit at Venezia 79 la fotografia and Twelve Photographs, 1961–1971, a 1978 limited edition of 1000 photogravure reproductions by Electa Editions, sized about 10 by 10 inches (250 by 250 mm), with profits to UNESCO.

'Because she died while making the boxes, [curator John] Jacob says, the images it contained are among her most iconic. “It’s the way the world got to know her first,” Jacob says.'

Revelations, SFMOMA's 2003–6 Arbus retrospective, gave pride of place to the box and its contents. The Smithsonian American Art Museum devoted a 2018 exhibition to its lifetime set (number 5 of 50, including a bonus eleventh photograph) in conjunction with which a reproduction was published for general sale. With over 1.6 million visitors, it was by far the best attended photography exhibition in the world that year. In the Beginning, a 2016–19 Met Breuer show focused on Arbus's 1956–1962 work, including Xmas tree, with the other nine images from the Box of Ten displayed in an adjacent space as an epilogue.

Homage/parody versions of Arbus images by Emily Peacock (series You, Me and Diane) and Sandro Miller include some from the Box, but not all and others not. Peacock's are from Diane Arbus: An Aperture Monograph.

Sales

A 1979 summary:

p. 73 Arbus made few prints from each negative, and often she left them unsigned, so her own signed prints are priced extremely high. Estate prints made by Neil Selkirk are available through galleries; moderate. (The back of these prints carries identification of printer, title, and signature by Arbus's daughter Doon. Images from the photographer's ten-print Portfolio (on 16x20 paper) are available individually from the estate and through galleries on 11x14 paper only; moderate.

p. 279 Portfolio. ... Of the projected edition of 50, only a few were printed and signed by Arbus before her death in 1971. ... 10 prints, to 14x14 on 20x16 photographic paper, unmounted, issued in a Lucite box of the same dimensions. Price at issuance: $1,500. Current value: $5,000.

Another, also 1979: "a fine original Arbus might go as high as $2,000 to $2,500, while a Selkirk portfolio print would bring $400 to $500 and other Selkirk prints only $200."

Posthumous prints of Arbus are relatively valuable compared with other artists, because of rationing by the estate. "Obviously vintage refers to a print that was made close to the time that the image was created. The only question that remains is: How close?"

Auction prices of complete sets of A Box of Ten Photographs

Date	Set	Price	House	Notes	Refs
11 May 1983	5 (lifetime)	$39,000	Sotheby's	$42,900 gross. Dealer George H. Dalsheimer bought it at Bea Feitler's estate sale.
6 May 1987	49	$14,000	Sotheby's	Fraenkel bought
2 November 1987	25		Sothebys	Bought by Yamakawa Collection
1 November 1988	36	$12,100	Sothebys
24 April 1990		$38,000	Christie's	At the "general sale", not the previous night's "Masterworks sale"
25 April 1990	45	$47,500	Sothebys
7 October 1993	7	$50,000	Sotheby's
2 October 1996		$76,000	Sothebys	$86,100 gross. Fraenkel bought
26 June 1997	45	$58,000	Christie's Los Angeles	$66,300 gross
5 October 1999	22	$90,500	Christies
17/18 October 2003	15	$360,000	Phillips de Pury & Luxembourg	$405,500 gross. Triple the estimate.
27 April 2005	23	$553,600	Sotheby's	Bought by Rose Shoshana
3 April 2012	45		Sotheby's	Sold after auction, where estimate had been $400,000–$600,000
6 April 2018	25	$792,500	Christie's
15 May 2023	15	$1,008,000	Christie's

A promotional flyer for the box, given by Arbus to Ruth Ansel, and made of two contact sheets fixed to a typewritten description, sold at Phillips for $35,000 in 2016. Flyers sold Swann Auction Galleries 14 Feb 2005 for $17,250 and 9 Oct 1997 Christies ("Dear VK ... regards to Miriam and Paul").

A copy of her Artforum (cover price $2) in a custom box has been offered for sale in 2022 for $1,900.

Individual sales

Sales of prints of images included in A Box of Ten Photographs

Image	Date	House	Printer	Size	Price	Index	Notes	Refs
Westchester Family	1994-10-05	Christie's	Prtzzz	Sizzz	Prizzz	Idxzzz	Notzzz	Refzzz
Westchester Family	1995-10-05	Christie's	Prtzzz	Sizzz	$4,200	Idxzzz	Notzzz	Refzzz
Westchester Family	1996-04-23	Christie's	Prtzzz	Sizzz	$22,000	Idxzzz	Notzzz	Refzzz
Westchester Family	2003-10-17	Sotheby's	Selkirk	15	Prizzz	Box 37	seller got Lunn 1978
Westchester Family	2004-04-27	Sotheby's	Arbus	Sizzz	$176,000	numbered by Doon	M. Anthony Fisher estate sale. Fraenkel beat Houk to buy; Fraenkel acquired 1968, sold to Fisher 2002. Authenticated 1998 by Doon
Westchester Family	2004-10-16	Sotheby's	Arbus	15	Prizzz	inscribed 'Dear Dr. Klein...'	Sold by psychotherapist "Dr. Klein", who received it as a gift from Arbus after her sole session with him
Westchester Family	2008-04-08	Sotheby's	Arbus	15	$553,000	unnumbered	Sellers were MoMA employees who bought in December 1969 at Photographs for Collectors of MoMA Art Lending Service. Est 200-300K. "This is believed to be the fifth early print of this image to be offered at auction, and only the second signed by Arbus."
Westchester Family	2008-04-10	Christie's	Selkirk	15	$91,000	Box 36	Sold by Bruce Berman and then-wife Nancy Goliger to Rose Shoshana
Westchester Family	2013-04-05	Christie's	Selkirk	15	Prizzz	Box 48	Notzzz
Westchester Family	8 October 2015	Phillips	Arbus	15	$305,000	Idxzzz	Provenance Christie's, New York, 23 April 1996, lot 502
Westchester Family	2019-04-02	Christie's	Arbus	Sizzz	$275,000	#5704-4-8U-1620	Notzzz
Westchester Family	2020-10-01	Sotheby's	Arbus	15	Pricezzz	inscribed 'Dear Dr. Klein...'	Acquired by Pace/MacGill Gallery 2005. Est. 300-500K
Westchester Family	2022-04-13	Sotheby's	Arbus	15	Presumably unsold	'Thanks, David. Diane.'	Gift to David Shainberg, sold by heirs. Est 150-250K.
Westchester Family	2024-04-13	Bonhams	Arbus	15	Pricezzz	'Thanks, David. Diane.'	Gift to David Shainberg; sold by Steven Shainberg. Est 80-100K
Identical Twins	1991-10-17	Sotheby's	Arbus	15	$40,000	#4539-14-3U-1620
Identical Twins	1992-04-14	Sotheby's	Prtzzz	Sizzz	Prizzz	Idxzzz	Notzzz	Refzzz
Identical Twins	1994	private	Arbus	Sizzz	$70,700	Idxzzz	MoMA sold to Fraenkel and Edwynn Houk for record
Identical Twins	1994-10-05	Sotheby's	Arbus	Sizzz	Prizzz	'For Harold'	Gift to Harold Hayes, sold by his widow. Sale 6599, Lot 59; buyer sold 2007
Identical Twins	1995-04-05	Christie's	Prtzzz	Sizzz	Prizzz	Idxzzz	Notzzz	Refzzz
Identical Twins	1996-04-23	Christie's	Arbus	3	$49,000	Idxzzz	Notzzz	Refzzz
Identical Twins	2000-04-05	Christie's	Arbus	3	$76,375	Idxzzz	post-card "Dear Stewart [Stern]..."
Identical Twins	2000-04-06	Sotheby's	Prtzzz	Sizzz	Prizzz	Idxzzz	Notzzz
Identical Twins	2000-10-12	Christie's	Arbus	Sizzz	$270,000	Idxzzz	$240,000 in other source -- fees? zzz
Identical Twins	2003	Sotheby's	Printzzz	Sizzz	Pricezzz	Idxzzz	Notzzz
Identical Twins	2004-04-27	Sotheby's	Arbus	Sizzz	$478,400	signed 'diane arbus', titled and dated 'Identical twins, (Cathleen and Colleen), Roselle, New Jersey, 1967' in ink (verso)	M. Anthony Fisher sale. Record Arbus price. Another source says $420,000 excluding fees. Provenance: gift from Arbus to Japanese collectors; then galleries: Stephen Wirtz, then Pace/MacGill and Fraenkel, then Barbara Mathes; then Fisher 2002. Bought by Trevor Traina, who sold it 2022-05-14 (see below)
Identical Twins	2004-10-15	Christie's	Arbus	3	$43,020	Idxzzz	postcard to Sidney Simon
Identical Twins	2005-04-26	Christie's	Arbus	3	unsold		postcard, est 40-60K
Identical Twins	2005		Selkirk	Sizzz	$110,400	Idxzzz	[sold to? zzz] Michael Mazzeo
Identical Twins	2005	Sotheby's	Selkirk	Sizzz	Pricezzz	Idxzzz
Identical Twins	2006-10-18	Christie's	Arbus	3	$45,600	Idxzzz	"on carte postale"
Identical Twins	2006	Sotheby's	Selkirk	15	Pricezzz	Box 38	Notzzz
Identical Twins	2007	Sotheby's	Arbus	Sizzz	Pricezzz	'For Harold'	Seller bought Sotheby's 1994. Est 400-600K. Hong Kong buyer offered at Sotheby's Paris 2018.
Identical Twins	2010-04-16	Phillips	Selkirk	15	$80,000	Box 19	$98,500 with fees. Provenance Howard Greenberg Gallery
Identical twins	2 April 2013	Phillips	Arbus	15	$602,500	Idxzzz	Given to Penny Ray by Arbus; seller Anthony Terrana got from Robert Klein Gallery
Identical Twins	2014-11-14	Christie's Paris	Selkirk	15	€51,900	Box 47	Notzzz	Refzzz
Identical Twins	2014-11-21	Leitz Vienna	Selkirk	15	€60,000	Box 5
Identical Twins	21 May 2015	Phillips London	Arbus	15	Costzzz	Idxzzz	Est. £250-350K. Provenance Christie’s East, New York, 8 November 1982, lot 13; Private Collection; Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York; Private Collection, Germany
Identical Twins	2015-11-13	Sotheby's Paris	Arbus	Sizzz	unsold	'For Harold'	Seller was from Hong Kong. Auction as part of the Paris Photo fair. Estimate of €200,000-300,000
Identical Twins	2017-11-09	Christie's Paris	Arbus	Sizzz	€547,500	#4539-14-12U-1620	certified 2012; from Thomas Koerfer collection
Identical Twins	2018-04-10	Sotheby's	Selkirk	10	Pricezzz		Leland Hirsch sale. Provenance Sotheby's New York, 11 October 2005, Sale 8115, Lot 171 ; est 40-60K
Identical Twins	2018-10-05	Christie's	Arbus	Sizzz	$732,500	#4539-14-18U-1620	Notzzz
Identical Twins	2021-04-06	Christie's	Selkirk	Sizzz	$81,250	NS Printer's Proof #2	Notzzz
Identical Twins	2022-05-19	Sotheby's	Arbus	15	$693,000	"the Diane Arbus Estate authentication number"	Estate to Fraenkel 2007, to Timothy Taylor, to seller 2009
Identical Twins	4 April 2023	Phillips	Arbus	10	$215,900	'Illustration No. 6'	Estate of Peter Bunnell
Identical Twins	2024-05-14	Christie's	Arbus	15	TBD	signed 'diane arbus', titled and dated 'Identical twins, (Cathleen and Colleen), Roselle, New Jersey, 1967' in ink (verso)	Sold by Trevor Traina, who bought it 2004-04-27 (see above)
Brooklyn Family	2002-10-14	San Francisco	Selkirk	10	$11,000	Idxzzz	Notzzz	Refzzz
Brooklyn Family	2006-04-25	Christie's	Selkirk	15	$33,600	unnumbered	Notzzz
Brooklyn Family	2008-04-10	Christie's	Selkirk	15	$39,400	Box 27	Notzzz
Brooklyn Family	2021-04-07	Sotheby's	Selkirk	15	Prizzz	Box 9	Est 40-60K; gifted to seller late 1970s
Brooklyn Family	2022-12-06	Hindman Chicago	Selkirk	15	$10,000	Box 36
Brooklyn Family	2023-02-23	Swann Galleries	Selkirk	10	$10,000	Idxzzz	$12,500 with fees
Brooklyn Family	2023-06-21	Doyle	Selkirk	15	$5,040	Box 26	estimate: $8,000-$12,000
Xmas Tree	2002	Sotheby's	Selkirk	Sizzz	Prizzz	Idxzzz	Lot 199
Xmas Tree	2003-10-17		Arbus	11	$125,000	Idxzzz	Notzzz	Refzzz
Xmas Tree	2003-10-17	Sotheby's	Selkirk	15	Prizzz	Box 47	Est: $7,000 - $10,000; seller bought from Lunn Gallery in 1978
Xmas Tree	2005-05-12	Christie's	Arbus	15	$192,000	Idxzzz	Notzzz
Xmas Tree	2005-05-12	Christie's	Arbus	12	$204,000	#1630-1-O(S*)-1620-C*	Resold Sotheby's 2010
Xmas Tree	2008	Sotheby's	Selkirk	15	Prizzz	Box 33	Seller bought from Lunn Gallery in 1978
Xmas Tree	2008-05-15	Christie's London	Arbus	15	withdrawn	Idxzzz	gift to Andrew Sarchiapone
Xmas Tree	2010-10-06	Sotheby's	Arbus	12	$122,500	#1630-1-O(S*)-1620-C*	Bought Christie's 2005. Sold to "collector Michael Mattis"
Xmas Tree	2016-04-03	Sotheby's	Selkirk	15	Prizzz	Box 36	Est 25-35K; seller Fraenkel
Xmas Tree	2021-07-28	Sotheby's	Selkirk	15	Prizzz	Box 9	Gifted to seller late 1970s
Jewish Giant	1981-10-21	Sotheby's	Arbus	15	Prizzz	"For Nancy and Anita"	Nancy Grossman and Anita Siegel; buyers Emily and Jerry Spiegel sold 17 May 2017
Jewish Giant	1991-04-16	Christie's	Arbus	13	$24,000
Jewish Giant	1999-06-09	Christie's	Selkirk	15	$10,925	Box 12	$9,500 without fees
Jewish Giant	2004-04-28	Sotheby's	Selkirk	15	Prizzz	Box 33	Notzzz
Jewish Giant	2004-10-16	Sotheby's	Arbus	Sizzz	$340,000	signed	Gift to seller, Philip Leider
Jewish Giant	2005-10-11	Sotheby's	Arbus	Sizzz	Pricezzz	numbered by Doon	Seller acquired from Robert Miller Gallery, 1993
Jewish Giant	2006-10-18	Christie's	Selkirk	15	$84,000	Box 33	Notzzz
Jewish Giant	2007-10-18	Christie's	Arbus	13	$421,000	#6882-9U-1620	Notzzz
Jewish Giant	9 April 2011	Phillips	Selkirk	15	$68,500	Box 37	The Looking Glass Gallery, Michigan
Jewish Giant	2013-10-03	Christie's	Selkirk	15	$56,250	Box 34	"With Yarlow/Salzman Gallery, Toronto, acquired 1979"
Jewish Giant	2011-04-09	Phillips	Selkirk	15	$55,000	Box 37
Jewish Giant	2015-10-05	Christie's	Selkirk	9	$62,500	unnumbered	Notzzz
Jewish Giant	8 October 2015	Phillips	Selkirk	15	$62,500	Box 48	Seller bought Edwynn Houk 1989
Jewish Giant	2015-11-12	Christie's Paris	Selkirk	15	€67,500	Box 40	Notzzz
Jewish Giant	2017-05-17	Christie's	Arbus	15	$583,500	"For Nancy and Anita"	From the estate sale of Emily and Jerry Spiegel, who bought it in 1981
Jewish Giant	2018-04-10	Sotheby's	Selkirk	15	Pricezzz	Box 33	Est. 50-70K; seller Leland Hirsch bought Christie's 2006
Jewish Giant	2021-04-07	Sotheby's	Selkirk	15	Prizzz	Box 9	Est 40-60K; gifted to seller late 1970s
Jewish Giant	2021-06-29	Christie's Paris	Selkirk	15	unsold	Box 47	Est €40-60K
Man in Curlers	2004-04-23	Phillips	Arbus	Sizzz	$198,400	Idxzzz	second highest to date
Man in Curlers	2008-10-14	Sotheby's	Arbus	Sizzz	Prizzz	unnumbered	Est 100-200K; seller bought 1974 from estate
Man in Curlers	2008-10-28	Bukowskis, Stockholm	Selkirk	15	SEK 600,000	Box 33	Provenance Camera obscura gallery, Stockholm
Man in Curlers	16 May 2009	Phillips London	Selkirk	15	Costzzz	Box 49	Est. £35-45K; Private Collection, Europe
Boy with straw hat	February 1988	Sotheby's	Arbus	Sizzz	$24,000	Idxzzz	record for artist
Boy with straw hat	1991-10-09	Sotheby's	Prtzzz	Sizzz	Prizzz	Idxzzz	Notzzz	Refzzz
Boy with straw hat	1998-10-07	Sotheby's	Prtzzz	Sizzz	Prizzz	Idxzzz	Notzzz	Refzzz
Boy with straw hat	2004	Sotheby's	Selkirk	Sizzz	Prizzz	Idxzzz	Possibly the one Sotheby's sold 2004-10-16
Boy with straw hat	2005-05-11	Christie's	Arbus	10	$228,000	Idxzzz	Notzzz
Boy with straw hat	2005-10-06	Phillips de Pury	Selkirk	10			Sale 40205, Lot 1; provenance Carole Thompson, Tennessee Private collection; bought by Leland Hirsch; Sotheby's 2018 resold
Boy with straw hat	2005		Arbus	Sizzz	$120,000	Idxzzz	to phone bidder (zzz mistake for 24/5 Apr 2006 @ Christie's?)
Boy with straw hat	2006-04-25	Christie's	Arbus	9	$120,000	Idxzzz	Notzzz
Boy with straw hat	2007-10-18	Christie's	Selkirk	15	$34,600	Box 19	Notzzz
Boy with straw hat	2007-11-19	Artcurial Paris	Selkirk	15	€23,545	Box 48	Notzzz
Boy with straw hat	2008-04-10	Christie's	Selkirk	15	$32,200	Box 40	Notzzz
Boy with straw hat	1 April 2009	Phillips	Selkirk	15	Costzzz	Box 49	Est. $25-35K
Boy with straw hat	2014-09-29	Christie's	Selkirk	15	$30,000	Box 12	Notzzz
Boy with straw hat	2016-04-06	Christie's	Arbus	14	$245,000	Idxzzz	Notzzz
Boy with straw hat	2018-04-10	Sotheby's	Selkirk	10			Seller Leland Hirsch bought Phillips de Pury 2005; est 20-30K
Boy with straw hat	2022-04-13	Sotheby's	Selkirk	10	Prizzz	Idxzzz	Est 20-30K
Boy with straw hat	4 April 2023	Phillips	Selkirk	10	$19,050
Boy with straw hat	3 October 2024	Christies	Arbus	10	TBD	#5027-1-7U-1114	Pace/MacGill; private collector; Christie's 2005-05-11 lot 51; Trevor Traina
Nudist couple	1999-06-09	Christie's	Selkirk	15	$7,475	Box 12	Notzzz
Nudist couple	2000-10-13	Christie's	Arbus	15	$41,125	Idxzzz	Notzzz
Nudist couple	2006-04-22	Sotheby's	Arbus	Sizzz	Prizzz	unnumbered	Notzzz
Nudist couple	2009-05-19	Sotheby's London	Selkirk	15	Prizzz	Box 49	Est £18-22K
Nudist couple	18 November 2014	Phillips London	Selkirk	15	£15,000	Box 40	Robert Miller Gallery
Nudist couple	1 October 2019	Phillips	Arbus	15	Costzzz	Idxzzz	Est $60-80K. Bought from Fraenkel Gallery 2002
Senior Citizens Dance	2003-10-17	Sotheby's	Selkirk	15	Prizzz	Box 33	Seller bought Lunn 1978
Senior Citizens Dance	2007-10-17	Phillips	Prtzzz	Sizzz	Prizzz	Idxzzz	Notzzz	Refzzz
Senior Citizens Dance	30 September 2013	Phillips	Arbus	15	$161,000	Idxzzz	Robert Miller Gallery
Senior Citizens Dance	2014-11-21	Leitz Vienna	Selkirk	15	€46,000	Box 5
Mexican Dwarf	1 April 2009	Phillips	Selkirk	15	Costzzz	Box 49	Est. $25-35K
Mexican Dwarf	2014-11-21	Leitz Vienna	Selkirk	15	€44,000	Box 5
Mexican Dwarf	2018-04-10	Sotheby's	Selkirk	15	Prizzz	Box 40	Leland Hirsch sale; bought from Fraenkel 2006
Mexican Dwarf	6 June 2018	Bruun Rasmussen, Copenhagen	Selkirk	15	unsold	Box 47	Est 225-250K DKK

Sources

• Arbus, Diane (1972). Arbus, Doon; Israel, Marvin (eds.). Diane Arbus: an Aperture monograph. Millerton, N.Y.: Aperture. ISBN 978-0-912334-40-0 – via Internet Archive.
• Arbus, Diane; Jacob, John P. (5 April 2018). Diane Arbus: A Box of Ten Photographs (1st ed.). New York, N.Y.: Aperture in association with Smithsonian American Art Museum. ISBN 978-1597114394.
• Bosworth, Patricia (2005) [1984]. Diane Arbus: A Biography. New York: W.W. Norton. ISBN 0-393-32661-6 – via Internet Archive.
• Gross, Frederick (2012). Diane Arbus's 1960s : Auguries of Experience. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. ISBN 978-0-8166-7011-6.
• Lubow, Arthur (2016). Diane Arbus : portrait of a photographer. New York: Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins. ISBN 978-0-06-223432-2 – via Internet Archive. [index: "boxed portfolio, 527-28, 529, 534, 537, 545-47, 572"; other pages about photos "considered including" etc.]
• Lee, Anthony W.; Pultz, John (2003). Diane Arbus : family albums. New Haven: Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-300-10146-1.

  [xiv-xv] Anthony W. Lee and John Pultz engage with Arbus’s claim that she was developing a “family album,” and they present [the Matthaei family in New York one weekend in 1969 and] other images Arbus shot for Esquire magazine ... and discuss her interest in photographic groupings of both traditional and alternative families. ... flushed with the recent successes and high publicity for the 1967 exhibition ... [Arbus] announced in 1968 that she was taking pictures for something she called a family album. Or as she preferred to name it, “Family Album,” ... the conceptual nature of ... her many pictures of families ... and the implications of her wishing to compile them in a single project. ... John Pultz ... the two other projects that might be construed as family albums by Arbus, the Box of Ten Photographs (1971) that she advertised for sale in Artforum magazine and the famous Aperture monograph of Arbus’s pictures published posthumously. ... Anthony Lee ... identifies the tumultuous issues in both art and the social order [in the 1960s] and discovers how picturing families and assembling them in an album grew out of debates about modernism and archive.

  [pp. 5-6] "The closest Arbus ever came to producing the “Family Album” was the portfolio A Box of Ten Photographs ... it might be thought of as the “Family Album” writ small"

• McQuaid, James; Wilson, Paulette Privitera, eds. (1982). An index to American Photographic Collections. Boston: G.K. Hall. ISBN 978-0-8161-0400-0 – via Internet Archive.
• Meister, Sarah Hermanson (2017). Arbus, Friedlander, Winogrand : New Documents, 1967. New York: Museum of Modern Art. ISBN 9780870709555.
  • "New Documents; February 28 – May 7, 1967; Checklist" (PDF). New York: Museum of Modern Art. 1967. Retrieved 25 February 2022.
• San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (2003). Diane Arbus : Revelations. New York: Random House. pp. 66, 188, 208–9, 211, 214, 216, 218–19, 220–22, 271, 307, 309, 311, 331, 340–41, 343. ISBN 978-0-375-50620-8 – via Internet Archive. Chapters:
  • The question of belief / Sandra S. Phillips p. 50
  • A chronology / Elisabeth Sussman and Doon Arbus p. 121
  • In the darkroom / Neil Selkirk p. 267
  • Afterword / Doon Arbus p.299
  • Biographies / Jeff L. Rosenheim p.306
• Staller, Justin; Perloff, Stephen (2006). The Photographic Art Market: Auction Prices 2005. Photograph Collector. ISBN 978-1-890488-22-2.

for review

• Arbus, Diane (May 1971). "Five Photographs by Diane Arbus". Artforum. 9 (9). Retrieved 26 June 2023.
• Chrust, Sharon; Jebrine, Amy R. (10 March 2022). "Posthumous Editions : Does the Market Value the Presence of the Artist?". In Hecker, Sharon; Karol, Peter J. (eds.). Posthumous Art, Law and the Art Market: The Afterlife of Art. Routledge. pp. 32–43. doi:10.4324/9781003185697-5. ISBN 978-1-000-57510-1.
• Paul, Cassidy (15 September 2022). "5 Facts about Diane Arbus, Fifty Years Later". Aperture. Retrieved 26 June 2023.
• Raymond, Claire (23 November 2019). "Diane Arbus's Uncanny Aura". The Photographic Uncanny: Photography, Homelessness, and Homesickness. Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 142–143, 165. doi:10.1007/978-3-030-28497-8_5. ISBN 978-3-030-28497-8.
• SAAM (Smithsonian American Art Museum) (3 October 2019). A Box of Ten Photographs: The Odyssey of Diane Arbus – via YouTube.
  • ?t=4533 time=1h 16m 13s : synopsis of eight lifetime sets
  • Jasper Johns is on panel
• arbus site:iphotocentral.com
  • Fraenkel, Jeffrey (18 April 2006). "Notes On Arbus Estate Prints". E-Photo Newsletter (104). I Photo Central.

References

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