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Diane Arbus (Art Drop #13)

Today's quick hit features a woman who photographed 'the unusual, the eccentric, and the extraordinary' during her scant 48 years on the planet.

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May 04, 2024
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Diane Arbus. Two Ladies at the Automat (New York City), 1966 via Chicago Art Institute Open Access

In Look Homeward, Angel, Thomas Wolfe tells us, “Every moment is a window on all time.” The above photograph by Diane Arbus may be such an opening.

But it is also a shard from the kaleidoscopic pattern of 1966, the year Arbus fixed those Two Ladies at the …

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