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Metropolitan Museum Scores Arbus Archive

Priceless gift includes thousands of negatives, annotated prints

By Caroline Miller, Newser Staff

Posted Dec 18, 2007 9:10 AM CST

(Newser) – Two years after New York's Metropolitan Museum mounted a landmark Diane Arbus retrospective, the photographer's daughters have donated her complete archives to the museum, reports the New York Times. The gift includes 7,500 rolls of film, hundreds of early photographs, and print sleeves Arbus... Read full story »

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