Met acquires Arbus archives
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From the Associated Press
The estate of Diane Arbus has presented the photographer’s complete archives to New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art as a gift.
The archives include hundreds of photographs, negatives and prints of 7,500 rolls of film, hundreds of glassine print sleeves, pages from her diaries, books from her home and studio, and family pictures.
The museum has also purchased 20 of her most famous photographs from San Francisco’s Fraenkel Gallery, which represents her estate. Arbus committed suicide in 1971.
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