Child with Toy Hand Grenade in Central Park

1962, by Diane Arbus, shows a boy, with the left strap of his shorts hanging off his shoulder, tensely holding his long, stringy, thin arms by his side.

According to The Washington Post, Colin does not specifically remember Arbus taking the photo, but that he was likely "imitating a face I'd seen in war movies, which I loved watching at the time."

Later, as a teenager, he was angry at Arbus for "making fun of a skinny kid with a sailor suit", though he enjoys the photograph now.

She felt damaged and she hoped that by wallowing in that feeling, through photography, she could transcend herself.The photograph was displayed at the Museum of Modern Art in 1967 under the title Exasperated Boy with Toy Hand Grenade in the New Documents exhibition, a three-person show featuring works by Arbus, Lee Friedlander, and Garry Winogrand.

[10] Soon after writing the song "Teach Your Children" in 1968, Graham Nash associated its message about nonviolence with Arbus's photo in a San Francisco gallery.

"[14] The image is also used on the cover of American indie rock band Cloud Cult's debut album Who Killed Puck?.