“Diane Arbus: Untitled”

Taken between 1969 and 1971, this series of 66 images record Arbus’s visits to various homes for the developmentally disabled. The subjects are captured during holiday celebrations and other social occasions—picnics, dances and Halloween festivities—raising the question, as always with Arbus, of whether these photos are exploitative or empathetic. The answer (again, as usual for Arbus) is that they represent a dance on the knife’s edge between cruelty and kindness.