Sentences with phrase «grenade in the hands of a child»

L.A. Expanded: Notes from the West Coast A weekly column by Catherine Wagley «Giving a camera to Diane Arbus is like putting a live grenade in the hands of a child,» Norman Mailer infamously remarked in 1971, less than one year before Arbus died and over nine years after she snapped a photo of a scrawny blond boy who actually did have grenade in hand.

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The Park has been a subject for artists ranging from Diane Arbus in her famously tense Child with Toy Hand Grenade from 1962 to Lee Friedlander's more recent angular studies of scrims of trees and grass.
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