Diane Arbus
1923-1971
W.H. Auden and Marianne Moore, N.Y.C.
1964 (negative)
sheet: 20 x 16 inches (508 x 406 mm); image: 14 7/16 x 14 7/16 inches
Gelatin silver print (printed by Neil Selkirk)
Purchased on the Horace W. Goldsmith Fund for Americana, 2008.
2008.49
Notes
Ed. #17/75 The two poets had been friends for twenty years when Arbus took this photograph on the occasion of a reading by Auden at the Guggenheim Museum, moments before Moore introduced him to the audience. It was published in Harper's Bazaar in April 1964 as part of the article "Affinities," devoted to portraits of creative partners.
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