Diane Arbus retrospective at Met

'This retrospective proves that her memorable work, which she did, on the whole, not for hire but for herself, was all about heart - a ferocious, audacious heart. It transformed the art of photography (Arbus is everywhere, for better and worse, in the work of artists today who make photographs), and it lent a fresh dignity to the forgotten and neglected people in whom she invested so much of herself. In the process, she captured a moment, the anxious 1950's and 60's, and - this probably applies as much to Arbus as to any other photographer of the second half of the last century - she captured New York.' More here. Something stunning she wrote in a letter to a friend: "The world is a Noah's ark on the sea of eternity containing all the endless pairs of things, irreconcilable and inseparable. And heat will always long for cold and the back for the front and smiles for tears and mutt for jeff and no for yes with the most unutterable nostalgia there is."