A recently erected statue of Diane Arbus is honoring the late photographer in one of the spots she regularly photographed people—inside New York City’s Central Park. The statue is a work of art that personifies the photographer with a realistic size and no base— just sneakers touching the ground.

The Diane Arbus statue, brought in by The Public Art Fund, is by Gillian Wearing, an artist who uses sculpture as well as photographs to explore the idea of self. The statue’s placement in Central Park coincides with Wearing’s exhibition at the Guggenheim called Wearing Masks.

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Placed in the Doris C. Freedman Plaza, is statue one of only two in the park honoring historic women. (The first is a grouping of Sojourner Truth, Susan B. Anthony, and Elizabeth Cady Stanton.) The depiction of Arbus is expected to remain in the park until August 14, 2022.

With hands wrapped around her iconic twin-lens reflex camera.
(The flash she is carrying is a “Mighty Light” made by Speedlight Center, now known as Lester A. Dine, Inc.). The Diane Arbus statue presents the photographer as many New Yorkers would have seen her. Arbus took to photographing people on the streets after giving up commercial photography in the 1950’s. In fact, the statue is placed in the middle of a walkway, mingling with people, rather than off to the side. 

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Despite most of the Diane Arbus statue being a bronze color, the photographer is depicted wearing white tennis shoes. Those shoes touch the ground, rather than a more traditional statue base. The statue is accompanied by a plaque with Arbus’ own words: “If you scrutinize reality close enough, if in some way you really, really get into it, it becomes fantastic.”

Many of Arbus’ street portraits were taken in Central Park. Artnet notes that the photographer regularly created portraits of “people on the fringes of society.” The photographer died in 1971 at the age of 48.

The Diane Arbus statue will remain in the Doris C. Freedman Plaza until August 2022, giving both travelers and native New Yorkers a chance to see the depiction. Wearing’s exhibition will be at the Guggenheim through April 2022.