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"Puerto Rican Woman with a Beauty Mark, N.Y.C." (1965) by Diane Arbus at Timothy Taylor Gallery, London

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"I am thrilled and pleased about the show," says Taylor, who adds that, "It’s very extensive and is the first Arbus exhibition to be held in a commercial London gallery."

The 60 photographs, taken from 1957 to 1971, demonstrate the full range of the artist’s portraiture: exotic and eccentric circus performers, transvestites and ordinary people captured in extraordinary moments.

Highlights include Child with a Hand Grenade in Central Park, NYC, 1962, Teenage Couple on Hudson Street, NYC, 1963, and a significant selection from her " Untitled" series (1969-1971) showing residents in a facility for the developmentally disabled. In Wales, the National Museum Cardiff is also paying tribute to Arbus, with an exhibition of 69 of her black-and-white portraits, from May 9 through August 31.

"A Searing Focus" originally appeared in the May 2009 issue of Art+Auction. For a complete list of articles from this issue available on ARTINFO, see Art+Auction's May 2009 Table of Contents.