The Backwards Man in his hotel room, N.Y.C.
Object type: Photograph
Department: Photographs
Artist: Diane Arbus
Artist bio: American, New York 1923–1971 New York
Artist role: Artist
Artist nationality: American
Date: 1961
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Dimensions: Image: 25.2 x 18 cm (9 15/16 x 7 1/16 in.)
Sheet: 35.6 x 27.9 cm (14 x 11 in.)
Classification: Photographs
Credit line: Purchase, Joyce Frank Menschel, and Ann Tenenbaum and Thomas H. Lee Gifts; Louis V. Bell, Harris Brisbane Dick, Fletcher, and Rogers Funds and Joseph Pulitzer Bequest; and Marlene Nathan Meyerson Family Foundation, Twentieth-Century Photography Fund, Diana Barrett and Robert Vila, Elizabeth S. and Robert J. Fisher, Charlotte and Bill Ford, Lita Annenberg Hazen Charitable Trust and Hazen Polsky Foundation Inc., Jennifer and Joseph Duke, Jennifer and Philip Maritz, Saundra B. Lane, The Jerry and Emily Spiegel Family Foundation and Pamela and Arthur Sanders, Anonymous, and The Judith Rothschild Foundation Gifts, 2007
Accession year: 2007