Daniel Kramer, a photographer and author of the book Bob Dylan, worked as an assistant to Diane Arbus and her husband Allan from 1957 to 1959. It was during this time that they developed a friendship that continued to the artist's death in 1971. Arbus corresponded with Mr. Kramer in 1967, congratulating him on the publication of his book, a photographic portrait of Dylan. This print was acquired as a gift after Arbus' death from a fellow artist as a gesture of recognition of Mr. Kramer's association with the photographer.

The print was reproduced in an issue of Horizon which featured several essays on the contemporary American notion of leisure. An excerpt from the preface offers a context which may make clear the use of Arbus' photograph: Does the widespread unrest manifest last year in so many different ways, in so many different places, have anything to do with the question of the good life? The answer, very probably, is yes. At bottom, what the rebels of 1968 had in common was a deep discontent with what they sometimes called the "consumer society".

The print has been examined and authenticated by Doon Arbus, the photographer's daughter and Administrator of the Estate of Diane Arbus.