
Lady bartender at home with a souvenir dog, New Orleans
A solitary woman stands in the intimate space of her home, her proud yet weathered expression anchored by the peculiar presence of a novelty souvenir dog at her side. Arbus captures the quiet tension between the woman's public identity as a bartender and the private world she inhabits, rendered in the stark, unflinching tonal contrasts characteristic of the artist's gelatin silver process. The image, printed posthumously by Neil Selkirk, preserves Arbus's signature ability to find profound dignity and strangeness in the overlooked corners of American life.
- Medium
- Gelatin silver print, printed later by Neil Selkirk.
- Spotted At
- Auction House · Phillips
🔨 Auction Lot
Photographs
April 3, 2013
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