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Young Man in Curlers at Home on West 20th Street, N.Y.C.
1966
Private preparation becomes a composed public image, complicating fixed ideas of gender and performance.
Artist field note
Diane Arbus
The ordinary becomes difficult to categorize.
Appears inPhotography
The five in one idea
Arbus made the categories we use for other people feel unstable - including the category called normal.