RICHARD RODRIGUEZ: Diane Arbus is as famous as any American photographer of the last 50 years and more notorious than most because she was an unblinking witness to the grotesque.

The complex, ambitious, taboo-smashing artist was famous for her photographs of so-called "freaks." Now, "psychobiographer" William Todd Schultz examines the woman behind the lens.

The estate of Diane Arbus has presented the photographer's complete archives to the Metropolitan Museum of Art as a gift. The archives include hundreds of photographs; negatives and prints of ...