Diane Arbus’s Intimate Portraits of People in Their Own Homes by Emily Steer
2025
Diane Arbus’s spirited black and white photographs are richly psychological and at times uncanny. Her subjects often return intense gazes to her lens. Many of her images were taken out on the street, but a new show at David Zwirner in London transports viewers inside the sacred realm of personal, domestic space. It is the first show of its kind to focus entirely on Arbus’s approach to private interiors, with photographs from the 1960s until 1971 stretching across New York, California, New Jersey and London. In Spring next year, the show will move to Fraenkel Gallery in San Francisco, and a monograph has been released as a joint venture between both spaces and the artist’s estate. Read more
