More than 100 pictures by celebrated New York photographer Diane Arbus are going on display in London in the new year.
Arbus, famed for her portraits of outsiders such as transvestites, strippers and carnival performers, committed suicide in 1971 and has since been hailed as a master of post-war photography. The show at the Hayward Gallery in the Southbank will open in February as part of its new season.
Gallery director Ralph Rugoff said: “As the first UK institution to exhibit Diane Arbus’s photographs in a major retrospective back in 1974, Hayward Gallery is delighted to be able to host the photographs of one the most influential artists of the 20th Century once again.
“This exhibition focuses on Arbus’s key early career photographs which clearly show how her unique perspective developed and how she came to create the arresting images she is deservedly celebrated for.”
A retrospective of painter Bridget Riley will open in October, almost 60 years after her first exhibition at the Hayward. Another show will focus on the life and career of US President Donald Trump as seen through newspaper front pages.
