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.

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 …