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Child with a Toy Hand Grenade in Central Park, NYC
1962
A boy’s strained face and clenched hand puncture the myth of innocent childhood.
Artist field note
The ordinary becomes difficult to categorize.
02 / 05
1962
A boy’s strained face and clenched hand puncture the myth of innocent childhood.
The five in one idea
Arbus made the categories we use for other people feel unstable - including the category called normal.